noun. A chronic, chiefly tropical disease characterized by diarrhea, emaciation, and anemia, caused by defective absorption of nutrients from the intestinal tract.

noun. The hole through which molten material is channeled into a mold.

noun. The waste material filling or protruding from this hole after hardening.

noun. The usually plastic rod or framework that secures molded objects, such as model parts or game pieces, before their first use.

noun. In casting metal, one of the passages leading from the “skimming-gate” to the mold; also, the metal which fills the sprue or sprue-gate after solidification: same as dead-head, 1 . Also called sprue-gate.

noun. A piece of metal or wood used by a molder in making the ingate through the sand.

noun. See sprew.

noun. undefined

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

noun. The waste piece of metal cast in this hole; hence, dross.

noun. Same as Sprew.

noun. The hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold.

noun. Material that cools in the feed channels to a mold.

noun. A tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis.

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

"The possibility of controlling the gastro-intestinal symptoms in sprue by the use of parenteral therapy with liver extract has been demonstrated by Castle and Rhoads."

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celiac sprue  

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