scorbutic
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Origin of scorbutic
1645–55; < New Latin scorbūticus, equivalent to Medieval Latin scorbūt ( us ) scurvy (≪ Middle Low German scorbûk ) + -icus -ic
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As Lamb points out, you might think that the widespread nature of the disease would translate into a sense of solidarity among those with scurvy; instead, scorbutic people tended to withdraw into their own misery.
From Slate • Dec. 8, 2016
At the same time, other scorbutic travelers evinced disgust or fear at the new animals, plants, and landscapes they encountered.
From Slate • Dec. 8, 2016
In the scorbutic body, as connective tissue fails, long-healed broken bones unknit themselves, and legs cramp so severely that the person cannot walk.
From Slate • Dec. 8, 2016
Scarce any one chronical distemper but owes its origin to a scorbutic tendency, or is so complicated with it, that it furnishes the most cruel and most obstinate symptoms.
From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
This patient has several symptoms which indicate a genuine scorbutic Diathesis; and it is probable that fixed air, taken internally, would be an useful medicine in this case.
From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Priestley, Joseph
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