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beriberi
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beriberi

Nutritional disorder occurring mostly in the tropics and resulting from a deficiency of vitamin B1 (thiamine). The disease takes two forms: in one oedema (waterlogging of the tissues) occurs; in the other there is severe emaciation. There is nerve degeneration in both forms and many victims succumb to heart failure.



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The development of a "high-output" heart failure in untreated thyrotoxicosis is well recognized and is also known to occur in other conditions, including Paget disease of the bone, beri beri, and severe anemia.
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though the men, who were suffering from beri beri, could not understand him.
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