failure to thrive
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Noun edit
failure to thrive (usually uncountable, plural failures to thrive)
- (pediatrics) Poor physical growth or level of weight, relative to one's age peers.
- (medicine, chiefly geriatrics) Abnormal weight loss, malaise.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see failure, thrive.
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