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Vinony

undernutrition

noun

  1. condition that results from not enough consumption of nutrients
  2. cause to lack nutrients
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From under- + nutrition.

  1. Inadequate nutrition, either due to a lack of food, or to the inability of the body to absorb its nutrients.

    “Researchers exploring paleosyndemics […] offer new ways to interpret co-occurring diseases such as leprosy and plague epidemics in medieval Europe, or the relationship between mal- or undernutrition and infectious disease, or socio-economic oppression and chronic disease.”