Hypervitaminosis

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any medical condition resulting from excessive intake of vitamins. countable, uncountable

    "The woman's bones were deformed and covered in coarse growths, the result of an agonizing condition called hypervitaminosis A, which can only come from eating the liver of a carnivore."

  2. 2
    an abnormal condition resulting from taking vitamins excessively; can be serious for vitamins A or D or K wordnet

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"The woman's bones were deformed and covered in coarse growths, the result of an agonizing condition called hypervitaminosis A, which can only come from eating the liver of a carnivore."

Etymology

From hyper- + vitamin + -osis.

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