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MALABSORPTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Abnormal absorption of nutrients from the digestive tract
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("malabsorption" is a kind of...):
absorption; assimilation (the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion)
Context examples:
The latter is characterized by the presence of peptic ulcer, gastroesophageal reflux disease, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and malabsorption.
(Pancreatic Gastrinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Secondary hyperparathyroidism is caused by the chronic stimulation of the parathyroid glands in patients with chronic renal failure, rickets, and malabsorption syndromes.
(Hyperparathyroidism, NCI Thesaurus)
Signs include upper and lower respiratory tract bacterial infections, malabsorption, diarrhea, and mucocutaneous candidiasis.
(Bare Lymphocyte Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
Present in minute amounts in various foods, these vitamins are essential to maintaining normal metabolism and biochemical functions; fat malabsorption may result in fat-soluble vitamin deficiencies.
(Fat-soluble vitamin, NCI Thesaurus)
Malabsorption, especially of vitamin B12 or folic acid, due to metabolic competition by bacteria proliferating in a segment of small intestine excluded from normal peristaltic movement; it may occur as a postoperative complication of side-to-side anastomosis of intestine, as a result of intestinal diverticula, fistula, etc.
(Blind Loop Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Symptoms usually appear in childhood and include meconium ileus, poor growth despite good appetite, malabsorption and foul bulky stools, chronic bronchitis with cough, recurrent pneumonia, bronchiectasis, emphysema, clubbing of the fingers, and salt depletion in hot weather.
(Cystic Fibrosis, NCI Thesaurus)
