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Vitamin c deficiency

vitamin C deficiency

A disease due to the deficiency of vitamin C (ascorbic acid).

symptoms include weakness, anaemia, spongy gums and mucocutaneous bleeding (mouth ulcers).

Synonym: scurvy.


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