alpine scurvy

Questions about alpine scurvy

What does alpine scurvy mean?

alpine scurvy means "a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments".

What is another word for alpine scurvy?

Close synonyms include pellagra, mal de la rosa, mal rosso, maidism, mayidism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alpine scurvy a common word?

alpine scurvy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.