different between pellagra vs pellicle

English

Etymology

From Italian pellagra, probably from Latin pellis (“skin”) + Italian -agra in e.g. chiragra, podagra.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??la???/, /p??la???/

Noun

pellagra (countable and uncountable, plural pellagras)

1. (pathology) A disease characterised by skin lesions and mental confusion, primarily caused by a niacin deficiency. [from 19th c.]
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 531:

     In 1755 the French physician Gaspar Casal (1680–1759) published an account of pellagra, then a new disease in Spain.

Related terms

• pellagric
• pellagrous

Translations

Finnish

Noun

pellagra

1. (pathology) pellagra

Declension

Italian

Noun

pellagra f (plural pellagre)

1. (pathology) pellagra

Related terms

• pellagroso

English

Etymology

From Latin pellicula, from pellis (“skin”). Doublet of pellicule.

Noun

pellicle (plural pellicles)

1. A thin skin or film.
2. A skin or coating of proteins on the surface of meat to be smoked, improving the surface adhesion.
3. Cuticle, the hard protective outer layer of certain life forms.
4. The skin of a mushroom cap.
5. (mycology) The outermost layer of a mushroom, often used only for a surface that is viscid and easily peels off.
6. The growth on the surface of a liquid culture.
7. The photosensitive emulsion of photographic film.
8. (optics) A thin plastic membrane used as a beam splitter or protective cover.

Related terms

• pelt
• pelisse
• pell
• pellagra
• pellage
• peltry