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deficiency disease
noun Pathology.
any illness associated with an insufficient supply of one or more essential dietary constituents.
Origin:
1910–15
1910–15
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Deficiency disease
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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World English Dictionary
| deficiency disease | |
| —n | |
| 1. | med Compare avitaminosis any condition, such as pellagra, beriberi, or scurvy, produced by a lack of vitamins or other essential substances |
| 2. | botany any disease caused by lack of essential minerals |
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
deficiency disease n.
A disease that is caused by a dietary deficiency of specific nutrients, especially a vitamin or mineral, possibly stemming from insufficient intake, digestion, absorption, or utilization of a nutrient. Also called insufficiency disease.
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