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malnutrition

[ mal-noo-trish-uhn, -nyoo- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

malnutrition

/ ˌmælnjuːˈtrɪʃən /

lack of adequate nutrition resulting from insufficient food, unbalanced diet, or defective assimilation

malnutrition

/ măl′no̅o̅-trĭsh′ən /

Poor nutrition caused by an insufficient, oversufficient, or poorly balanced diet or by a medical condition, such as chronic diarrhea, resulting in inadequate digestion or utilization of foods.

malnutrition

Inadequate nutrition caused by the lack of a balanced diet or by disorders of the digestive system in which the nutrients from food cannot be absorbed properly.

First recorded in 1860–65; mal- + nutrition

“One-third of South Asians and more than half of all Sub-Saharan Africans suffer from malnutrition or undernutrition,” he writes.

Figueroa told The Daily Beast that her husband indeed was stabbed and he is also anemic from malnutrition.

While food is distributed to families, children living on the UN base in Bentiu continue to struggle with malnutrition.

For children on the brink of severe malnutrition, diarrhea can be the trigger that pushes them over the edge.

A nation that not 20 years ago was struggling with malnutrition, Brazil is now waging an all-too-familiar battle of the bulge.

The occupants were all suffering from malnutrition, and there was a great deal of starvation in the town.

The half brute of the London slums had not food enough when a child, and malnutrition is deadly.

The underfed workman does not ask for a tonic, but for better economic conditions which shall prevent malnutrition.

However, they could have died from malnutrition and been eaten as carrion.

It is half what ails folks, that so many of them have no children in their lives and it affects them like malnutrition.

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