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What does scorbutic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, or suffering from scurvy.
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Cases which have been described as malaria with scorbutic complications belong mostly to the last variety.
Eight cases of scorbutic gums were already upon my black-list.
An experiment was conducted in which guinea pigs were fed a normal, high vitamin C diet with 10-percent galactose or a scorbutic diet plus 10-percent galactose.
The lens epithelium of scorbutic animals had 2.5 times as much galactitol on day 4 than those animals fed vitamin C in their diets.
Carbonate of potassa is thought to be preferable to carbonate of soda, when the above affections occur in scorbutic habits.
They also gave me some sugarcane, which I distributed to such of my men as were scorbutic.

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