scurvy

human disease
MedicalCondition class_of_disease Q163865
scurvy
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scurvy

Summary

scurvy is a class of disease[1]. scurvy ranks in the top 3% of class_of_disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (32,011 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • scurvy's instance of is recorded as class of disease[3].
  • scurvy is a type of nutritional deficiency disease[4].
  • scurvy is a type of ascorbic acid deficiency[5].
  • scurvy is a type of vitamin deficiency[6].
  • scurvy is a type of disease[7].
  • scurvy's Commons category is recorded as Scurvy[8].
  • scurvy's time of discovery or invention is recorded as 2000 BC[9].
  • scurvy's has cause is recorded as ascorbic acid deficiency[10].
  • scurvy's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Scurvy[11].
  • scurvy's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • scurvy's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • scurvy's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • scurvy's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15].
  • scurvy's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[16].
  • scurvy's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[17].
  • scurvy's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 4[18].
  • scurvy's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[19].
  • scurvy's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C35010[20].
  • scurvy's health specialty is recorded as internal medicine[21].
  • scurvy's drug or therapy used for treatment is recorded as sodium ascorbate[22].
  • scurvy's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_13724[23].
  • scurvy's exact match is recorded as http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:13724[24].
  • scurvy's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Medicine[25].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for scurvy include DL-ascorbic acid[26], a group of isomeric entities[27].

Why It Matters

scurvy ranks in the top 3% of class_of_disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (32,011 views/month).[2] scurvy has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] scurvy is known by 63 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Entities named for scurvy include DL-ascorbic acid[26], a group of isomeric entities[27].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . NDF-RT. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [26] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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