DEFICIENCY DISEASE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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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