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MALNOURISHMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does malnourishment mean? 

MALNOURISHMENT (noun)
  The noun MALNOURISHMENT has 1 sense:

1. not having enough food to develop or function normallyplay

  Familiarity information: MALNOURISHMENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MALNOURISHMENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Not having enough food to develop or function normally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

malnourishment; undernourishment

Hypernyms ("malnourishment" is a kind of...):

hunger; hungriness (a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation)

Derivation:

malnourish (provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment)


 Context examples 


The test's ability to quantify zinc's clinically relevant levels, necessary to detect malnourishment, is one of its main innovations.

(Test for life-threatening nutrient deficit is made from bacteria entrails, National Science Foundation)



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