pellagrin

English

pellagrin (plural pellagrins)

One who is afflicted 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 […]