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Malnutrition   Listen
noun
malnutrition  n.  (Physiol.) Faulty or imperfect nutrition; inadequate or unbalanced food intake.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Malnutrition" Quotes from Famous Books



... perfect food. In the form of white flour, however, it is an imperfect, unbalanced food, on account of its deprivation of the valuable phosphates which exist in the bran. Rickets and malnutrition generally are the outcome of the habitual use of white flour, unless the loss of mineral matter is counter ...
— Food Remedies - Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses • Florence Daniel

... specifically confined to the oriental in the mind of the student can be justly considered of much wider distribution for the mild forms of malnutrition associated with a deficiency in the "B" vitamine are less acute manifestations of this disease. The disease is not likely to become marked in well nourished districts in its acute form, but in famine districts its incidence is always possible. It would be more than possible were it ...
— The Vitamine Manual • Walter H. Eddy



Words linked to "Malnutrition" :   deficiency disease, kwashiorkor, hypovitaminosis, marasmus



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