Sentence examples for deficiency disease from inspiring English sources

This method was initially performed in 1990 in the USA for the treatment of adenosine deaminase-deficient SCID (combined immune deficiency disease) patients [4].

It is a classic case of iodine deficiency disease, she added.

Ms. Stewart has said he has a thyroid-related auto-immune deficiency disease that caused patches of hair to fall out and turned his skin sallow.

When the British navy adopted Lind's advice decades later this deficiency disease was eliminated.

Certain nutrients are essential; without them a deficiency disease will result.

A cruel and debilitating affliction, iodine deficiency disease not only causes goiter, which restricts breathing and eating, but can contribute to miscarriages, stillbirths, infant mortality and deafness, she said.

Pellagra, a vitamin-deficiency disease endemic among the northern peasantry, rapidly declined as diets improved.

Another common additive, potassium iodide, does not affect the water-attracting properties of table salt but is added to prevent an iodine-deficiency disease, goiter, that causes enlargement of the thyroid gland and can cause mental retardation.

Oats planted in alkaline soils that actually contain a sufficient amount of manganese may develop the manganese-deficiency disease gray speck.

Not a calcium-deficiency disease per se, osteoporosis is strongly influenced by heredity; risk of the disease can be lessened by ensuring adequate calcium intake throughout life and engaging in regular weight-bearing exercise.

The desperate poverty of the peasantry led to grain riots, brigandage, and the spread of pellagra, a vitamin-deficiency disease endemic among the northern peasantry, whose diet relied heavily on corn (maize).