English

Noun

pellagrin ‎(plural pellagrins)

1. One who is afficted with pellagra.
   • 1871, Chambers's Encyclopædia

     The extent of the ravages of this affection may be estimated from the facts, that of 500 patients in the Milan Lunatic Asylum in 1827, one third were pellagrins […]

   • 1972, D. J. M. Vorster, The human biology of environmental change

     In two patients the course was complicated by cerebral embolism with hemiplegia; one of these, the pellagrin, died and at necropsy the heart was markedly enlarged […]