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.

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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These conditions are responsible for a lack of food, which leads to malnutrition.

Their nutrition crisis takes the form of malnutrition, in too many cases acute malnutrition.

Malnutrition and dehydration are common in rescued orangutans.

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These conditions are responsible for a lack of food, which leads to malnutrition.

Their nutrition crisis takes the form of malnutrition, in too many cases acute malnutrition.

Malnutrition and dehydration are common in rescued orangutans.

The international community has set its sights on easing the burdens of infectious disease and malnutrition around the world.

They suffer from malnutrition and various viral and bacterial diseases.

Also watch the child's height, weight, and general development closely for signs of malnutrition or failure to thrive.

In turn, millions of their own people have died due to malnutrition and starvation.

On a merchant ship, food and clean water were in short supply and diseases caused by malnutrition were rampant.

From bone growth patterns, she concludes that the child probably went through a period of malnutrition.

It is the preferred method for feeding patients with malnutrition who cannot tolerate eating by mouth.

Malnutrition rates in some areas are five times more severe than the threshold aid agencies use to define a crisis.

People must add other foods to their diets to avoid malnutrition.

Perhaps because the onset of seizures inhibits eating, they suffer from malnutrition.

Weight loss and malnutrition are possible complications.

In recent years, some have even died of cold or malnutrition.

Malnutrition also raises the disease burden markedly.

Childhood malnutrition can permanently stunt mental and physical development if it is severe and long-lasting.

The effects of hunger start before birth, as malnutrition in pregnant mothers causes problems for children in later life.

The scientists found evidence of a number of diseases that are related to maternal malnutrition and poor prenatal care.

These include infections, genetic disorders, and severe malnutrition.

Once in the army, the young men face a miserable regime of bullying, malnutrition and forced labour.

And indeed, people already plagued by anemia or malnutrition can get sick from them," he acknowledged.

Many of the others have the skeletal frames and baggy skin of children with severe malnutrition.

Next came a set of interventions aimed at fighting malnutrition.

Rather, they encountered disease, malnutrition and often brutality.

Child malnutrition in slums is worse than that in rural areas.

Still almost half of all people born end up dying of malnutrition right now.

Malnutrition is the condition that occurs when your body does not get enough nutrients.

For thousands of years people were compelled to eat local, and frequent malnutrition and famine were the result.

Prenatal malnutrition may also play a role in the development of schizophrenia.

Medics say the reason they don't suffer from malnutrition is that there must be lots of micronutrients in their animals' milk.

And certain bugs are fortified with fats and vitamins that could help fend of malnutrition and starvation.

Kristof on how breastfeeding can help end malnutrition in developing countries.

There are no signs of malnutrition or infectious disease during childhood," the report states.

In many others, malnutrition is widespread, and the threat of famine looms.

Malnutrition is not a large problem, and people have a long lifespan.

Kettrick said malnutrition had complicated the recovery of children after surgery.

It has rising rates of child malnutrition and alarming declines in reserves of its two main resources, oil and water.

Also, support the efforts of groups working to end hunger and malnutrition in poor countries.

Godfrey is balding and suffers from kwashiokor, a disease caused by malnutrition.

Deaths from famine, starvation and malnutrition are fewer than ever before.

Malnutrition and illness are rife, and roving bandits loot abandoned villages.

Since then, hunger and malnutrition can only have increased.

Six of his brothers and sisters were also treated for malnutrition at the time.

Timor-Leste has the world's third-highest rate of child malnutrition.

The following lab tests can measure how severe the malnutrition is and determine what nutrients need to be increased:.

But such societies are unthinkable with shortened life spans, large-scale malnutrition and recurrent famines.

In people who are immunosuppressed, long-term diarrhea may cause weight loss and malnutrition.

Until recent months, severe malnutrition and starvation on this scale were virtually unheard.

Routine screening of newborns for cystic fibrosis could prevent malnutrition among infants with the disease, a study has found.

Beds were overflowing with infants and children, many of them desperately ill with malaria, malnutrition or viral diseases.

The food stamp program was originally devised to combat malnutrition among the poor.

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malnutrition (ˌmælnjuːˈtrɪʃən)

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

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Word Origin & History

malnutrition

1862, from mal- + nutrition.

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Medical Dictionary

malnutrition mal·nu·tri·tion (māl'n&oomacr;-trĭsh'ən, -ny&oomacr;-)
n.
Poor nutrition because of an insufficient or poorly balanced diet or faulty digestion or utilization of foods.

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Science Dictionary

malnutrition

(māl'n

-trĭsh'ən) Pronunciation Key
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.

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Cultural Dictionary

malnutrition definition

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.

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"He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer."

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