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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock (
Raphanus raphanistrum ) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism.
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