hypovitaminosis
English
editEtymology
editFrom hypo- + vitamin + -osis.
Noun
edithypovitaminosis (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
editHyponyms
edit- hypovitaminosis A (vitamin A deficiency)
- hypovitaminosis D (vitamin D deficiency)