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...acilico...?

Would the itialian word for celiac disease be acilico? I have an Italian foreign exchange student in my biology class, and she asked me about a disease in which people couldn't digest carbs like in certain breads and pasta. She only knew the Italian name (acilico). I told her I wasn't aware of any disease in which a person couldn't digest carbs, but I knew there was one (celiac disease) in which people couldn't digest gluten (which is in a lot of the carbs she mentioned), but I couldn't remember the name of the disorder until she left class. Anyway, it's been a while since my Latin, so I was hoping to get some help from a bi-lingual health professional. Are these two things (acilico and celiac) the same? All help is appreciated.

Update:

Thank you so far. She was speaking of the disease, and neither of us knew the translation, but she thought acilico was how it was spelled.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Celiac disease in Italian is "Celiachia". "Gruppo acilico" means "acyl group" or "alkanoyl".

  • nora87
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Celiac in Italian would be celiaco (for male) or celiaca (female) and it's a person that can't digest gluten (the disease is "celiachia").

    acilico is not a disease, it means "related to organic compounds that do not contain aromatic nucleus", it's acylic.

    Source(s): 100% italian
  • 1 decade ago

    The the does not exist here in Italy, I have just ask 5 of my Italian friends and they said they had not idea what it could mean and they further check the dictionary.

    Celìaco seems to be the closest and it is used for an intolerance to Gluten.

    So I would say it must be that.

  • MJ
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I dunno in italian. But in spanish acilico is acylic. Like Acylic Acid

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