Concept information
Preferred term
Ascorbic Acid Deficiency
Type
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Definition
- 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)
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Entry terms
- Deficiency, Ascorbic Acid
- Deficiency, Vitamin C
- Vitamin C Deficiency
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- blood (Qualifier)
- cerebrospinal fluid (Qualifier)
- chemically induced (Qualifier)
- classification (Qualifier)
- complications (Qualifier)
- congenital (Qualifier)
- diagnosis (Qualifier)
- diagnostic imaging (Qualifier)
- diet therapy (Qualifier)
- drug therapy (Qualifier)
- economics (Qualifier)
- embryology (Qualifier)
- enzymology (Qualifier)
- epidemiology (Qualifier)
- ethnology (Qualifier)
- etiology (Qualifier)
- genetics (Qualifier)
- history (Qualifier)
- immunology (Qualifier)
- metabolism (Qualifier)
- microbiology (Qualifier)
- mortality (Qualifier)
- nursing (Qualifier)
- parasitology (Qualifier)
- pathology (Qualifier)
- physiopathology (Qualifier)
- prevention & control (Qualifier)
- psychology (Qualifier)
- radiotherapy (Qualifier)
- rehabilitation (Qualifier)
- surgery (Qualifier)
- therapy (Qualifier)
- urine (Qualifier)
- veterinary (Qualifier)
- virology (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Déficit en acide ascorbique
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-ZHQJN9S7-W
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