11663 IUPAC Gold Book - cassavism 10.1351/goldbook.11663 11663 current mentioned: cassava root, cassava toxin, cyanide synonyms: konzo, mantakassa 1 Epidemic paralytic disease, mainly affecting women and children, occurring in remote rural areas of African and Latin American countries, where cassava root is an important food. It is associated with many weeks of consumption of "bitter" (high cyanide) cassava that has not been adequately treated to remove the cyanide. PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 855 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11663/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11663/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11663/plain Citation: 'cassavism' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.11663 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-25T04:40:27+00:00