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Webster 1913 Edition

malnutrition

malˊnu-tri′tion

,

Noun.

[

Mal-

+

nutrition

.]

(Physiol.)

Faulty or imperfect nutrition; inadequate or unbalanced food intake.

Definition 2025

malnutrition

malnutrition

English

A 1922 photograph by Fridtjof Nansen of two boys suffering from malnutrition

Noun

malnutrition ‎(usually uncountable, plural malnutritions)

A lack of adequate nourishment.

Translations

lack of adequate nourishment

Armenian: թերասնում (hy) ‎(tʿerasnum)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 營養不良 (zh), 营养不良 (zh) ‎(yíngyǎng bùliáng)
Czech: podvýživa (cs) f
Danish: fejlernæring c, underernæring c
Dutch: ondervoeding (nl)
Finnish: aliravitsemus (fi), virheravitsemus
French: malnutrition (fr) f
German: Unterernährung (de) f, Mangelernährung (de) f

Hungarian: alultápláltság (hu)
Italian: denutrizione (it) f
Japanese: 栄養失調 ‎(えいようしっちょう, eiyō shitchō)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: underernæring m, f

Nynorsk: underernæring f
Portuguese: desnutrição (pt) f
Russian: недоеда́ние (ru) n ‎(nedojedánije)
Spanish: desnutrición (es) f
Swedish: undernäring c

French

Etymology

mal- +‎ nutrition

Noun

malnutrition f ‎(plural malnutritions)

malnutrition