sprue

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sprue tropical disease tropical horse tick tropical medicine tropical oil tropical rat mite tropical sprue tropical ulcer

Main Entry: sprue
Pronunciation: sprü
Function: noun
1 : CELIAC DISEASE
2 : a disease of tropical regions that is of unknown cause and is characterized by fatty diarrhea and malabsorption of nutrients -- called also tropical sprue