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Перевод: scurvy

[прилагательное]
подлый; низкий; презренный;
[существительное]
цинга

Тезаурус:

1. At the same time, ways and means were being sought of preventing scurvy, the scourge of all who crewed ships on long voyages.
2. A severe deficiency of vitamin C results in many symptoms, including listlessness, soft gums (even teeth falling out), and skin problems (symptoms of a disease called scurvy).
3. Happily there were no reports of scurvy, beri beri or other ailments caused by malnutrition!
4. The idea was proposed to Priestley that his carbonated water, which could be prepared on board, might provide doses of carbon dioxide and thus prevent scurvy (as well as make the distilled sea water more palatable).
5. When he completed his circumnavigation of the world, his contemporaries were just as impressed by the fact that he achieved this feat without losing a single member of his crew to scurvy.
6. An opinion made popular by a Dr David Macbride held that scurvy was due to an inadequate supply of fixed air in the human body, and that it might be cured by a dose of that gas.
7. Their forebears may well have relied heavily upon scurvy grass ( Cochlearia officinalis ) in some areas referred to as , "a sailor" or "mariner", and in other areas called , "the thing for scurvy", or more explicitly, possessing antiscorbutic properties.
8. Was it famine or scurvy - I fought it;
9. The Board of the Admiralty asked the College of Physicians to investigate the possibilities of such a cure against scurvy, a disease that had hitherto lost naval engagements, without a fight.
10. After all, you have managed to survive for years without suffering from severe vitamin deficiency - scurvy, rickets, or such things.
11. Not even the abduction of his children by Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman) and his scurvy sidekick, Smee (Bob Hoskins), can shake Peter's scepticism.
12. Lime juice was recognized (though not widely established) as preventive for scurvy, and cod liver oil for rickets long before specific nutritional deficiencies began to be understood or vitamins were discovered.