(n.) The quality or state of being scurvy; vileness; meanness.
Example Sentences:
(1) This symptom is connected with high blood levels of cortisol, which are probably also involved in the injuries to connective tissue known in scurvy.
(2) We report three patients who highlight the epidemiology, clinical features, and differential diagnosis of scurvy.
(3) Scurvy developed in a 56-year-old man with poor dietary intake and was associated with knee hemarthroses and synovial thickening.
(4) This was soon accompanied by other “medicinal” drinks such as the gimlet, to avoid scurvy on ship, and pink gin, which was said to help seasickness.
(5) This study shows that guinea pigs fed 100 times the amount of vitamin C needed for growth and for prevention of scurvy have elevated levels of complement component C1q.
(6) Feed samples were submitted to a laboratory for analysis and were confirmed deficient in vitamin C. Follow-up radiographs showed large calcifying subperiosteal hematomas in epiphyseometaphyseal regions, consistent with a diagnosis of scurvy.
(7) A case of scurvy during prolonged stay in hospital is presented.
(8) In either case it implies the accumulation in scurvy of low-molecular-weight peptides enriched in proline and deficient in hydroxyproline and could explain the failure to accumulate a high-molecular-weight collagen deficient in hydroxyproline.
(9) Scurvy, which is caused by a deficiency in vitamin C, is mostly attributed to the decreased synthesis of collagen.
(10) Total IGFBP-3 in the experimental sera was increased about 30%, while there was little effect of scurvy or fasting on the level of BP-3 activity isolated by acid extraction of the high mol wt region of the S200 column.
(11) Familiarity with the risk factors for and clinical manifestation of scurvy can facilitate earlier diagnosis.
(12) Two types of pathologic state are unquestionably the concern of vitaminotherapy: More or less specific and intense vitamin deficiencies: Rickets, scurvy, beri beri, pellagra, vitamin deficiency related to alcohol consumption, polyneuritis, encephalopathy, malabsorption, mucoviscidosis, etc.
(13) The incidental discovery of scurvy in a patient with a symptomatic hiatal hernia has led to the identification of 9 other individuals with chemically proved vitamin C deficiency secondary to an expressed aversion to "acid" food in any form.
(14) The osteogenic disorder Shionogi (ODS) rat is a mutant Wistar rat that is subject to scurvy, because it lacks L-gulono-gamma-lactone oxidase, a key enzyme in L-ascorbic acid biosynthesis.
(15) Old people living alone and in poverty are most at risk for developing scurvy, but the diagnosis may be missed unless the physician is aware of it.
(16) In OD rats, the dietary requirement of ascorbic acid to maintain normal growth and prevent any signs of scurvy is about 300 mg of ascorbic acid per kilogram diet.
(17) Clinical manifestations of scurvy were exhibited, however, when animals receiving no ascorbic acid supplement were treated with the steroid hormones for 7 d. All of these animals died by d 10.
(18) The common cold studies indicate that the amounts of vitamin C which safely protect from scurvy may still be too low to provide an efficient rate for other reactions, possibly antioxidant in nature, in infected people.
(19) Moderate vitamin C deficiency, in the absence of scurvy, results in alteration of antioxidant chemistries and may permit increased oxidative damage.
(20) This is illustrated by some epidemiological examples (ergotism, scurvy, yellow fever, English sweat, diphtheria and malaria).
Vileness
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Those behind it have once again taken the law into their own hands and dispensed a vile form of rough justice.
(2) The deputy prime minister branded the treatment meted out to the four-year-old by his mother, Magdelena Luczak, and stepfather, Mariusz Krezolek, as evil and vile, but suggested it was up to the whole of society to stop such tragedies.
(3) Charlie Morris described the column as "vile and disgusting", adding that she hoped the writer "gets the sack".
(4) In China, where the Communist party has always determined which news is fit to print, authorities have ordered internet portals to abandon original reporting on political or social topics because of its “ extremely vile effect ”.
(5) The massacre was not committed by "the Poles" against "the Jews", but was a vile crime committed by specific individuals.
(6) Daryush 'Roosh V' Valizadeh cancels neo-masculinist meetings over safety Read more Roosh and company encountered such uniform hostility because their views are ostentatiously vile.
(7) Much porn is samey and some is utterly vile, full of torture, faeces, urine, vomit and blood and the utter degradation of women who become nothing but a series of orifices.
(8) Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn claimed the results so far illustrated that the Conservatives’ “vile campaign” had backfired .
(9) This whole vile outpouring may just be par for the course in the wilds of social media.
(10) I did, though, have my suspicions that the perpetrator of this vile assault was Dolge Orlick, Joe's journeyman apprentice.
(11) The description “whorephobic” is usually reserved for feminists who speak or campaign against the liberalisation of the laws on sex work, who dream of a world where this huge, vile industry doesn’t exist.
(12) It is true in both cases that secrecy helps to protect some truly vile criminals, terrorists and paedophiles.
(13) It was not that he could not play good guys; rather that he excelled at locating the virtues in the apparently vile.
(14) Jowell said: "Harriet Harman would have nothing to do with the vile rubbish of an organisation like PIE," adding: "I don't want anyone to think this present frenzy about Harriet, the NCCL and the Daily Mail attack on her is in any way explained by that was then and this is now."
(15) Last year the country's most senior judge said only "extremely vile criminals" were executed in 2007 as a result of "kill fewer, kill carefully" reforms that gave the supreme court the right to overturn capital sentences handed down by lower courts.
(16) You need locking up.” Vardy posted a screenshot of the threats with the words “shocking and vile”.
(17) "That is why I believe George Osborne's calculated decision to use the shocking and vile crimes of Mick Philpott to advance a political argument is the cynical act of a desperate chancellor.
(18) Vile stuff – but the Nazi attitude to modern art may have been radically misunderstood.
(19) "They will not further any aim or objective by their vile and callous deeds.
(20) Vile returned to Philadelphia and enrolled at a community college.