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Definition of Sprue

1. Noun. A chronic disorder that occurs in tropical and non-tropical forms and in both children and adults; nutrients are not absorbed; symptoms include foul-smelling diarrhea and emaciation.

Definition of Sprue

1. n. Strictly, the hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold.

Definition of Sprue

1. Noun. (medicine) A tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis. ¹

2. Noun. (context: founding) The hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold. ¹

3. Noun. (context: founding) Material that cools in the feed channels to a mold. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sprue

1. a tropical disease [n -S]

Medical Definition of Sprue

1. An inherited disease where the intestinal lining is inflamed in response to the ingestion of a protein known as gluten. Gluten is present in many grains including rye, oats, barley and triticale. Symptoms in infants include diarrhoea, slow growth, bloody stools, weight loss, vomiting and clay-coloured stools. Symptoms in adults include abdominal distention, abdominal pain, fatigue, weight loss, bone pain and bone tenderness. Treatment involves the life-long avoidance of gluten. (04 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Sprue

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Diagnostics and Treatment of Tropical Diseases by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1919)
"Commencing as early morning diarrhoea, with at times alternating constipation, there gradually sets in that which makes for a diagnosis of sprue— putty ..."

2. The Diagnostics and Treatment of Tropical Diseases by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1917)
"Commencing as early morning diarrhoea, with at times alternating constipation, there gradually sets in that which makes for a diagnosis of sprue- putty ..."

3. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1907)
"sprue (Atrophic Enteritis of the Tropics) is not a distinct morbid entity; ... sprue may be defined as a chronic catarrhal inflammation of the entire ..."

4. The Diagnostics and Treatment of Tropical Diseases by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1914)
"Commencing as early morning diarrhoea, with at times alternating constipation, there gradually sets in that which makes for a diagnosis of sprue— putty ..."

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