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Can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods
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malnutrition
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1843, from mal- + nutrition .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a lack of adequate nourishment
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB die ▪ Among the millions who die each year through malnutrition there are many children of the Kingdom. suffer ▪ One third of the population is clinically anaemic and 80% of children under 5 years of age suffer from ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Malnutrition or malnourishment is a condition that results from eating a diet in which nutrients are either not enough or are too much such that the diet causes health problems. It may involve calories , protein , carbohydrates , vitamins or minerals . ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
malnutrition \mal`nu*tri"tion\, n. [Mal- + nutrition.] (Physiol.) Faulty or imperfect nutrition; inadequate or unbalanced food intake.
Usage examples of malnutrition.
Infantile mortality--due chiefly to beriberi, which meant malnutrition, and to tetanus, which meant dirty handling at birth, reached 773.
Iraqi economy of most of the remaining constraints so that there would be no reason for any Iraqi to suffer from malnutrition or inadequate medicine.
A study conducted by UNICEF and Tufts University immediately after the Gulf War found considerable evidence of preexisting malnutrition among Iraqi children as a result of that prior era of neglect.
This is actually on the high side, and obesity hi some parts of the population had become as much of a problem as malnutrition in others.
Second, this is the average across the entire population, and what it fails to reveal is that for some sectors of the Iraqi population the drop took them well below subsistence level, producing malnutrition and starvation.
Similarly, by April 1999, UNICEF had found that oil-for-food had halted the rise in malnutrition problems.
This general state of malnutrition, coupled with the many definite maladies from which the people suffer, and with the fact that their common habits of eating might have been expressly designed to produce infection, makes physically poor bodies whose resistance to any and all disease is terribly low.
Human rations were fixed far below qualitative and quantitative minima for health, and within a short time, malnutrition, skin ailments, infections, and degenerative diseases began to kill millions.
With their disintegration, cutthroat capitalism, petty-stateism, senseless competition, and canonized selfishness, they have created want and insecurity, hunger, malnutrition, unemployment, despair and suicide.
We examined him and found him to be basically sound, despite the malnutrition and a dislocated right shoulder.
Despite this, fifteen to twenty people died in the camp of malnutrition or other causes every day.
Most of them suffered from scabies and malnutrition, and four had severe cases of tuberculosis.
Japanese troops in the field were perishing in huge numbers from malnutrition and disease.
A rough estimate put the number of deaths from malnutrition in Tokyo in the three months after surrender at more than one thousand.
He, too, began to suffer noticeably from malnutrition, his entire body beginning to swell up.