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| sprue [ sproo ] |
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tropical disease: a tropical disease of unknown origin involving deficient absorption of nutrients from the intestine and marked by persistent diarrhea, weight loss, and anemia
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| [Late 19th century. < Dutch spruw "the disease thrush"] |
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