Defenition of the word malnutrition

• Defenition of the word malnutrition

  • Defective nutrition due to inadequate intake of nutrients or to their faulty digestion, assimilation or metabolism.
  • a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods

Synonyms for the word malnutrition

• • famine
  • starvation
  • underfeeding
  • undernourishment

Similar words in the malnutrition

• • malnutrition
  • malnutrition's

Hyponyms for the word malnutrition

• • avitaminosis
  • hypovitaminosis
  • kwashiorkor
  • marasmus

Hypernyms for the word malnutrition

• • deficiency disease

Antonyms for the word malnutrition

• • nutrition

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