What is "undernourishment"

Usage examples of "undernourishment".

Even mild undernourishment, the kind most common among poor people in America, can do it.

They were of his own race, though usually lighter-complexioned, sometimes blond, and might have been taller than him had not undernourishment stunted growth.

As well as suffering from undernourishment or exposure, conditions which are treatable, they displayed symptoms of respiratory distress associated with elevated temperature, or a wasting disease affecting the peripheral vascular and nervous systems.