hypovitaminosis
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From hypo- + vitamin + -osis.
Noun
[edit]hypovitaminosis (countable and uncountable, plural hypovitaminoses)
- (biology, medicine) 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.
Antonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]- hypovitaminosis A (vitamin A deficiency)
- hypovitaminosis D (vitamin D deficiency)