Medical condition of live phoenix rising with wings clipped (8)
I believe the answer is:
beriberi
'medical condition' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both states of affairs as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'live phoenix rising with wings clipped' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'live' could be 'be' (synonyms) and 'be' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for beriberi that I've seen before include "Tropical vitamin deficiency disease" , "Inflammatory disease" , "Disease (lack of vit. B1)" , "Disease caused by lack of vitamin B" , "Asian disease caused by a dietary deficiency" .)