- dry beriberi
- a form of beriberi in which flaccid paralysis, muscular atrophy, and areflexia are the prominent signs; cardiac enlargement and tachycardia may be present. Called also atrophic b. and paralytic b.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
dry beriberi
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