beriberiin a sentence
- Most feared was beriberi, a potentially deadly disease caused by a lack of thiamine.† (source)
- He had survived pellagra in Persia, scurvy inthe Malayan archipelago , leprosy in Alexandria, beriberi in Japan, bubonic plague in Madagascar, an earthquake in Sicily, and a disastrous shipwreck in the Strait of Magellan.† (source)
- Ho-ho beriberi. and 'Balls!' all rang out in rapid succession, and then there was Yossarian with the question that had no answer: 'Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?'† (source)
- Beriberi was often found in Asian countries before the 20th century because they depended on white rice (with the husk removed) for their diet.
- Almost everyone had beriberi, and some men went blind from malnutrition.† (source)
- There were two forms of beriberi, and they could occur concurrently.† (source)
- Not long after, beriberi set in, and Minsaas became too weak to walk, then could no longer speak.† (source)
- Just as at Ofuna, beriberi and other preventable diseases were epidemic at Omori.† (source)
- He'd seen too many men die to be ignorant of what this meant: beriberi.† (source)
- In some cases, wet beriberi caused extreme swelling of the scrotum.† (source)
- "Dry" beriberi affected the nervous system, causing numbness, confusion, unsteady gait, and paralysis.† (source)
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- "Wet" beriberi affected the heart and the circulatory system, causing marked edema—swelling—of the extremities; if untreated, it was often fatal.† (source)
- At one chain of hospitals, doctors found a history of wet beriberi in 77 percent of POWs and dry beriberi in half.† (source)
- The civilians that they saw were in shocking condition: The limbs of the adults were grotesquely swollen from beriberi; the children were emaciated.† (source)
- When wet beriberi victims pressed on their swollen limbs, deep indentations would remain long after the pressure was removed, giving the men the unnerving impression that their bones were softening.† (source)
- These were the cremated remains of sixty Australian POWs—one in every five prisoners—who had died in this camp in 1943 and 1944, succumbing to pneumonia, beriberi, malnutrition, colitis, or a combination of these.† (source)
- He had developed beriberi.† (source)
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