Hypervitaminosis

noun

Definitions

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

Etymology

From hyper- + vitamin + -osis.

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