A nutritional condition produced by a deficiency of magnesium in the diet, characterized by anorexia, nausea, vomiting, lethargy, and weakness. Symptoms are paresthesias, muscle cramps, irritability, decreased attention span, and mental confusion, possibly requiring months to appear. Deficiency of body magnesium can exist even when serum values are normal. In addition, magnesium deficiency may be organ-selective, since certain tissues become deficient before others. (Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 12th ed, p1936)
Magnesium Deficiency -- complications. : Magnesium deficiency in the pathogenesis of disease : early roots of cardiovascular, skeletal, and renal abnormalities / Mildred S. Seelig
Magnesium deficiency diseases -- Complications. : Magnesium deficiency in the pathogenesis of disease : early roots of cardiovascular, skeletal, and renal abnormalities / Mildred S. Seelig
A six carbon compound related to glucose. It is found naturally in citrus fruits and many vegetables. Ascorbic acid is an essential nutrient in human diets, and necessary to maintain connective tissue and bone. Its biologically active form, vitamin C, functions as a reducing agent and coenzyme in several metabolic pathways. Vitamin C is considered an antioxidant
Magnesium Silicates. : Definitions for asbestos and other health-related silicates : a symposium / sponsored by ASTM Committee D-22 on Sampling and Analysis of Atmospheres and ASTM Committee E-34 on Occupational Health and Safety, Philadelphia, Pa., 13 Oct. 1982 ; Benjamin Levadie, editor
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