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A condition due to a dietary deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), characterized by malaise, lethargy, and weakness. As the disease progresses, joints, muscles, and subcutaneous tissues may become the sites of hemorrhage. Ascorbic acid deficiency frequently develops into SCURVY in young children fed unsupplemented cow's milk exclusively during their first year. It develops also commonly in chronic alcoholism. (Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, p1177)
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- Deficiency, Ascorbic Acid
- Deficiency, Vitamin C
- Vitamin C Deficiency
- Ascorbic Acid Deficiencies
- Deficiencies, Ascorbic Acid
- Deficiencies, Vitamin C
- Vitamin C Deficiencies
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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- National Library of Medicine. Ascorbic Acid Deficiency. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001206. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001206
- Ascorbic Acid Deficiency. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18967616