lactose intolerance

English

Noun

lactose intolerance (usually uncountable, plural lactose intolerances)

1. Inability to fully metabolize lactose.

Related terms

• lactase persistence
• lactose-free
• lactose intolerant (adj)

 

Translations

inability to metabolize lactose

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乳糖不耐 (rǔtángbùnài), 乳糖不耐症 (zh) (rǔtángbùnàizhèng)

• Danish: laktoseintolerans
• Dutch: lactose-intolerantie (nl) f
• Finnish: laktoosi-intoleranssi (fi)
• French: intolérance au lactose
• German: Laktoseintoleranz (de) f
• Hungarian: laktózérzékenység
• Japanese: 乳糖不耐症 (にゅうとうふたいしょう, nyūtōfutaishō)
• Korean: 젖당못견딤증 (jeotdangmotgyeondimjeung)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kêmtoleransiya laktozê f

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: laktoseintoleranse m

  Nynorsk: laktoseintoleranse m

• Polish: nietolerancja laktozy f
• Romanian: intoleranță la lactoză f
• Russian: непереноси́мость лакто́зы f (neperenosímostʹ laktózy), гиполактази́я f (gipolaktazíja)
• Spanish: intolerancia a la lactosa f
• Swedish: laktosintolerans (sv) c
• Turkish: laktoz intoleransı

Further reading

• lactose intolerance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia