MALNUTRITION
Dictionary entry overview: What does malnutrition mean?
• MALNUTRITION (noun)
The noun MALNUTRITION has 1 sense:
1. a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods
Familiarity information: MALNUTRITION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MALNUTRITION (noun)
Meaning:
A state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("malnutrition" is a kind of...):
deficiency disease (any disease caused by a lack of an essential nutrient (as a vitamin or mineral))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "malnutrition"):
avitaminosis; hypovitaminosis (any of several diseases caused by deficiency of one or more vitamins)
kwashiorkor (severe malnutrition in children resulting from a diet excessively high in carbohydrates and low in protein)
marasmus (extreme malnutrition and emaciation (especially in children); can result from inadequate intake of food or from malabsorption or metabolic disorders)
