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blight 2, verb (oh) and haemorrhagic scurvy (medicine)


blight 2, verb (oh)



2 v [T]
to spoil or damage something, especially by preventing people from doing what they want to do
::a disease which, though not fatal, can blight the lives of its victims
::a country blighted by poverty
-- blightĄ¤ed adj
::blighted hopes

haemorrhagic scurvy (medicine)


haemorrhagic scurvy
Scurvy with extensive haemorrhages in gums, skin and Other tissues, typical of severe stage of the disease.

Infantile scurvy, osteopathia haemorrhagia infantum;a cachectic condition in infants, resulting from malnutrition and marked by pallor, fetid breath, coated tongue, diarrhoea, and subperiosteal haemorrhages; probably a combination of scurvy and rickets due to combined deficiency of vitamins C and D.

Synonym: Barlow's disease, Cheadle's disease, osteopathia haemorrhagica infantum, scurvy rickets.

Land scurvy, formerly, scurvy occurring in people who had not been to sea.