Malnutrition

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  malnutrition \mal`nu*tri"tion\, n. [Mal- + nutrition.]
     (Physiol.)
     Faulty or imperfect nutrition; inadequate or unbalanced food
     intake.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  malnutrition
       n : a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or
           excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb
           foods

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "malnutrition":
     Lombardy leprosy, anemia, ariboflavinosis, beriberi, cachexia,
     chlorosis, deficiency anemia, dermatitis, dietary deficiency,
     goiter, greensickness, keratomalacia, kwashiorkor, maidism,
     night blindness, osteomalacia, osteoporosis, pellagra,
     pernicious anemia, protein deficiency, rachitis, rickets, scurvy,
     struma, vitamin deficiency, xerophthalmia