Having the quality of preventing or curing scurvy; relating to antiscorbutic remedies.
From antiscorbutic + -al (adjective suffix). The -al ending emphasizes the adjectival quality, creating a more formal or technical variant of antiscorbutic, though the two forms are largely synonymous.
Antiscorbutical appears primarily in 18th and 19th-century medical texts describing foods and treatments for sailors—it's a word that traveled with European exploration and colonialism. The specificity of this medical vocabulary reveals how important scurvy was to maritime history.
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