hypervitaminosis
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Etymology
[edit]From hyper- + vitamin + -osis.
Noun
[edit]hypervitaminosis (countable and uncountable, plural hypervitaminoses)
- Any medical condition resulting from excessive intake of vitamins.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 398:
- 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.
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[edit]medical condition
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