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)
    

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The magic of magnesium : the trace element which plays an important part in combating osteoporosis and in alleviating the symptoms of PMS / by Eric Trimmer.

Calcium and magnesium in drinking-water : public health significance.

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The magic of magnesium : the trace element which plays an important part in combating osteoporosis and in alleviating the symptoms of PMS / by Eric Trimmer.

Calcium and magnesium in drinking-water : public health significance.