Antiscorbutic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Curing or preventing scurvy: an antiscorbutic vitamin.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. preventing or curing scurvy
  • n. A medicine that prevents or cures scurvy.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Counteracting scurvy.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In medicine, counteracting scurvy.
  • n. A remedy for scurvy, as lemon-juice, ripe fruits, etc.
    • Word Usage
    "But this vitamin was previously called the antiscorbutic vitamin on the ground that the lack there of caused the disease of scurvy, so much dreaded by the polar explorers of earlier times."
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