MALABSORPTION SYNDROME

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A pattern of symptoms including loss of appetite and bloating and weight loss and muscle pain and steatorrhea; associated with celiac disease and sprue and cystic fibrosis

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("malabsorption syndrome" is a kind of...):

syndrome (a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease)

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