Beriberi: Wet beribericases were bloated with edema usually beginning in the feet and gradually progressing upward to the head.
On a rare occasion a dry beriberi patient would develop edema in his feet and legs; strange as it may seem, the edema seemed to relieve the pains of the dry beriberi.
At times baseball and volleyball were attempted, but beriberi definitely limited any enthusiasm and the games died out.
Beriberi Heart Disease: Beriberi heart disease was seen frequently, and often resulted in sudden death.
Many American trained cardiologists still consider beriberi heart disease as a reversible condition, but some ex-P.
As is well known, infants which develop beriberi are almost always nursed and not bottle-fed, and show signs of this disorder, although the mothers are in apparent health, and give no clinical evidence of disease.
Edema is frequently met with in "ship beriberi," a disorder considered by some writers to be a combination of beriberiand scurvy.
In relation to beriberi and avian polyneuritis improvement of this kind has frequently been explained on the theory of a sudden mobilization of vitamines from the tissues.
A Case of Infantile Beriberiwith Autopsy Report, Phillip.
If the polyneuritis of beriberi and the hemorrhages of scurvy are attributable to a diminished secretion of the endocrine glands, then it will be necessary to revise present conceptions of their physiologic functions.
It is true that in beriberi the vagus is involved to a still greater extent, especially its recurrent laryngeal branch which brings about the characteristic aphonia.
Just as the mere fact that a lack of vitamines leads to scurvy and to beriberi does not signify, in theory or in practice, the existence of pathogenetic interrelationship.
In this connection we cannot help contrasting the relation of beriberi to breast feeding.
A similar phenomenon has been noted in relation to the treatment of polyneuritis in birds and of beriberi in man.
In severe cases of beriberi Yano and Nemoti have recently reported that the blood contains an increase of urea, and that its excretion is frequently disturbed.
In dry beriberi the termination in death is exceedingly rare as a direct result of the action of the poison producing the disease, so that when death does occur it is chiefly from exhaustion.
The time of recovery depends on the amount of muscular degeneration, and also upon the season of the year when the attack occurred, as all cases of both forms of beriberi usually get well without treatment during the winter months.
The medical treatment of dry beriberi differs materially from that of {1043} the wet disease.
Beriberi atrophia (dry or atrophic beriberi), in which there is a notable deficiency of fluids in the vessels and areolar tissue, and atrophy of the muscles.
The heart in wetberiberi is habitually large and flabby, its muscular tissue softened and of a pale-yellow and macerated appearance.
A marked case of wet beriberi is always to be regarded as dangerous, from the suddenness with which pernicious symptoms often declare themselves.
Up to this point the above symptoms are common to both the wet and {1040} dry forms of the malady, and to them the characteristic features either of beriberi hydrops or atrophia are now added.
In both wet and dry beriberi the appetite is little impaired in the earlier stages, but if in the former the stomach is over-distended, there is increased præcordial oppression, and sometimes sudden death.
In the extreme atrophy of dry beriberi I have not unfrequently found many of the sarcolemma sheaths completely emptied of their contents.
The morbid anatomical changes in beriberi vary considerably with its form.
It would appear that in wet beriberi the heart is first weakened by paresis of the cardiac ganglia, with consequent incomplete emptying of its cavities.
If the heart be now examined, a decided systolic murmur will be heard, most distinctly over the pulmonary valves; and in most cases of wet beriberi it exists in all the large arterial trunks.
We named this big tributary Rio Cardozo, after a gallant officer of the commission who had died of beriberi just as our expedition began.
Beriberi and malignant malarial fever were the diseases which claimed the major number of the victims.
There was much fever and beriberi in the country we were entering.
A test for anti-beriberi vitamine and its practical application.
The swellings and the deaths without obvious cause described by the early commentators may have resulted from beriberi (the disease did not have a name until the eighteenth century).
In some countries of Malaysia the oil is used in the same way especially in beriberi and the periarticular inflammations incident to puerperium.
I do not know how much of his suspicions Commissioner Leslie has communicated to you," he resumed, "but I believe that you have all heard of the disease beriberi so common in the Far East and known to the Japanese as kakke.
I had been studying him and trying to recall what I had just read of beriberi and polyneuritis.
You know," he remarked, "beriberi itself is a common disease in the Orient.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beriberi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
