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Antiscorbutic
Antiscorbutic An`ti*scor*bu"tic, a. (Med.) Counteracting scurvy. -- n. A remedy for scurvy.
Antiscorbutical
Antiscorbutical An`ti*scor*bu"tic*al, a. (Med.) Antiscorbutic.
Scorbute
Scorbute Scor"bute, n. [LL. scorbutus: cf. F. scorbut. See Scurvy, n.] Scurvy. [Obs.] --Purchas.
Scorbutic
Scorbutic Scor*bu"tic, Scorbutical Scor*bu"tic*al, a. [Cf. F. scorbutique.] (Med.) Of or pertaining to scurvy; of the nature of, or resembling, scurvy; diseased with scurvy; as, a scorbutic person; scorbutic complaints or symptoms. -- Scor*bu"tic*al*ly, adv.
Scorbutical
Scorbutic Scor*bu"tic, Scorbutical Scor*bu"tic*al, a. [Cf. F. scorbutique.] (Med.) Of or pertaining to scurvy; of the nature of, or resembling, scurvy; diseased with scurvy; as, a scorbutic person; scorbutic complaints or symptoms. -- Scor*bu"tic*al*ly, adv.
Scorbutically
Scorbutic Scor*bu"tic, Scorbutical Scor*bu"tic*al, a. [Cf. F. scorbutique.] (Med.) Of or pertaining to scurvy; of the nature of, or resembling, scurvy; diseased with scurvy; as, a scorbutic person; scorbutic complaints or symptoms. -- Scor*bu"tic*al*ly, adv.
Scorbutus
Scorbutus Scor*bu"tus, n. [LL. See Scorbute.] (Med.) Scurvy.

Meaning of Scorbut from wikipedia

- Scurvy is a deficiency disease (state of malnutrition) resulting from a lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid). Early symptoms of deficiency include weakness...
- scorbuticus (pertaining to scurvy), cognate with Old Norse skyrbjugr, French scorbut, Dutch scheurbuik and Low German scharbock. Partly for this discovery,...
- arrived, and in medical error mistook Charles X Gustav's pneumonia for scorbut and dyspepsia. Köster started a "cure" including the application of multiple...
- in 1673 and they had eleven children. In 1671, Venette wrote Traité du scorbut (Treatise on scurvy), and the better known Tableau de l’amour conjugal...
- drogues aromatiques et fruits qui se trouvent aux Indes Un Traité du scorbut, qui est une maladie étrange qui survient à ceux qui voyagent en ces contrées...
- François Auguste Souleyet, 1832) were named. Réflexions sommaires sur le scorbut, 1804 Considérations et observations sur la syphilis dégénérée, 1811 De...
- 3: 176-178. Wimberger H. Klinisch-radiologische Diagnostik v. Rachitis, Scorbut u. Lues im Kindesalter. Ergebn. d. inner. Med. u. Kinderheilkunde. 1925;28:264...
- d'une trentaine d'hommes de la compagnie du sieur de Mons périrent du scorbut. Les hivers à Port-Royal furent moins rigoureux, mais quand même longs...
- already shown the usefulness of certain fruits and vegetables (Traité sur le scorbut by James Lind in 1757). by melting the fat of elephant seals. According...
- Légion d'honneur (28 avril 1821). Étude des eaux (1826) Dissertation sur le scorbut (1803) The French renamed HMS Hannibal as Annibal. Hennequin (Biographie...