Scurvy

Noun

 * 1)  A disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin C leading to the formation of livid spots on the skin, spongy gums, loosening of the teeth and bleeding into the skin and from almost all mucous membranes.

Synonyms

 * Barlow's disease, Cheadle-Möller-Barlow syndrome, Cheadle's disease, Moeller's disease, Möller-Barlow disease, scorbutus

Derived terms

 * scurvy grass

Related terms

 * -scorbic
 * scorbic
 * ascorbic
 * scorbutic

Adjective

 * 1) Contemptible, despicable, low, disgustingly mean.

Derived terms

 * scurvily
 * scurviness

Thesaurus
Lombardy leprosy, abject, abominable, anemia, ariboflavinosis, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, base-minded, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, beriberi, blameworthy, brutal, cachexia, cheap, cheesy, chlorosis, common, contemptible, crummy, debased, deficiency anemia, degraded, deplorable, depraved, dermatitis, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgusting, dishonorable, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, goiter, grave, greensickness, grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, infamous, keratomalacia, kwashiorkor, lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, low-minded, lumpen, maidism, malnutrition, mangy, mean, measly, meretricious, miserable, monstrous, nasty, nefarious, night blindness, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, osteomalacia, osteoporosis, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, pellagra, pernicious anemia, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, protein deficiency, rachitis, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, reptilian, repulsive, rickets, rotten, rubbishy, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scuzzy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, small, sordid, sorry, squalid, struma, terrible, too bad, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unclean, unmentionable, valueless, vile, villainous, vitamin deficiency, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, xerophthalmia

Etymology

 * Noun usage from the adjective scurvy#Adjective: influenced by or a variant of scurfy:. Took on meaning of scheurbuik:,  scorbut:, possibly from  skyrbjúgr:, skyr: + bjúgr:. Compare German scharbock:, Late Latin scorbutus:.
 * Alternate etymology is < <.

Noun

 * Armenian: լնդախտ
 * Bosnian: skorbut
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 坏血病
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: scheurbuik
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:, Scharbock
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Polish: szkorbut
 * Russian: цинга,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: iskorbüt

Adjective

 * Bosnian: podao


 * Russian: низкий, подлый