malnutrition

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

malnutrition
    n 1: a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or
         excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb
         foods

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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