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Malnutrition   /mˌælnutrˈɪʃən/   Listen
Malnutrition

noun
1.
A state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods.





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"Malnutrition" Quotes from Famous Books



... whole population or cause "innocent civilians" to suffer (e.g., some economic sanctions, collateral damage from raids) also are likely to be only politically acceptable in aggravated situations. For example, if economic sanctions cause malnutrition or other health problems or collateral damage from bombing or shelling impacts hospitals, schools, orphanages, or refugee camps, the policy may ...
— Shock and Awe - Achieving Rapid Dominance • Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade
... winsomely—"I think we should get up a subscription for those wonderful scientists in Vienna. Every once in a while you hear the most harrowing stories of the starving scientists of Europe, and it would be too awful if those miracle men in Vienna should pass away from malnutrition before it is our turn to ...
— Black Oxen • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton


Words linked to "Malnutrition" :   deficiency disease, avitaminosis, marasmus, kwashiorkor, hypovitaminosis


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