DEFICIENCY DISEASE
Dictionary entry overview: What does deficiency disease mean? • DEFICIENCY DISEASE (noun)
The noun DEFICIENCY DISEASE has 1 sense:
1. any disease caused by a lack of an essential nutrient (as a vitamin or mineral)
Familiarity information: DEFICIENCY DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DEFICIENCY DISEASE (noun)
Meaning:
Any disease caused by a lack of an essential nutrient (as a vitamin or mineral)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("deficiency disease" is a kind of...):
disease (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deficiency disease"):
malnutrition (a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods)
zinc deficiency (a deficiency caused by inadequate zinc in the diet or by liver disease or cystic fibrosis or other diseases)
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