malnutrition

From mal- +‎ nutrition.

malnutrition (usually uncountable, plural malnutritions)

1. A lack of adequate nourishment.

   Hyponyms: undernutrition, overnutrition

   • 2013, Robert H. Rubin, Lowell S. Young, Clinical Approach to Infection in the Compromised Host‎^[1], →ISBN, page 275:

     It is predictable that some of these infections occur in individuals immunocompromised by malnutrition or underlying disease (notably cancer or AIDS) or by immunosuppressive therapy.

From mal- +‎ nutrition.

• IPA^(key): /mal.ny.tʁi.sjɔ̃/

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malnutrition f (plural malnutritions)

1. malnutrition

• “malnutrition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.