scurvy
human disease
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Summary
scurvy is a class of disease[1]. scurvy ranks in the top 3% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17,948 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: nutritional deficiency disease[3], ascorbic acid deficiency[4], vitamin deficiency[5], disease[6]
- Commons category: Scurvy[7]
- Time of discovery or invention: 2000 BC[8]
- Has cause: ascorbic acid deficiency[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Scurvy[10]
- Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[15], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[16], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 4[17], Otto's encyclopedia[18]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C35010[19]
- Health specialty: internal medicine[20]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: sodium ascorbate[21]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_13724[22], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:13724[23]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[24]
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Works and Contributions
Things named for scurvy include DL-ascorbic acid[25], a group of isomeric entities[26].
Why It Matters
scurvy has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] scurvy is known by 85 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]
Entities named for scurvy include DL-ascorbic acid[25], a group of isomeric entities[26].