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scurvy

[skur-vee] / ˈskɜr vi /


















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Scurvy, the great scourge of maritime exploration, the killer of some two million people between the late 1400s and 1800, was once understood as a disease of longing.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2020

Scurvy was often attended by other diseases of malnutrition—pellagra, beriberi—so its unique symptoms weren’t always easy to disambiguate, and some treatments that seemed to alleviate the malady were actually working on those diseases instead.

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2016

Scurvy, from the vitamin C deficiency, often went along with rickets.

From Washington Post • Oct. 16, 2016

Han and Chewie turn up in a retrofitted amphibious Millennium Falcon, renamed the Scurvy Seadog, to save the day.

From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2015

Scurvy rats, hungry ferrets, sly weasels, bad stoats—exactly what he needed.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques




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