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Hypovitaminosis
noun
Definitions
Noun
- 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 any of several diseases caused by deficiency of one or more vitamins wordnet
Etymology
From hypo- + vitamin + -osis.
See also for "hypovitaminosis"
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