failure to thrive

English

Noun

failure to thrive (usually uncountable, plural failures to thrive)

1. (pediatrics) Poor physical growth or level of weight, relative to one's age peers.
2. (medicine, chiefly geriatrics) Abnormal weight loss, malaise.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see failure,‎ thrive.

Translations

pediatrics

• French: retard de croissance m
• German: Gedeihstörung f
• Serbo-Croatian: zastoj u rastu i razvoju m

adult medicine

• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Gedeihstörung
• Serbo-Croatian: izostanak očekivanoga normalnog fiziološkog razvoja, kopnjenje (sh), nazadovanje n, opća iznemoglost f

See also

• failure to launch