Hypovitaminosis

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    vitamin deficiency: insufficiency of one or more essential vitamins in the body. Specific forms are labeled with the vitamin identifier: hypovitaminosis A, hypovitaminosis D, and so on, although those forms are more often called vitamin A deficiency, vitamin D deficiency, and so on. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    any of several diseases caused by deficiency of one or more vitamins wordnet

Etymology

From hypo- + vitamin + -osis.

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