malabsorption syndrome
Medicine
noun
A syndrome characterized by chronic diarrhoea, weight loss, anorexia, abdominal discomfort, and often other signs caused by specific nutrient deficiencies, associated with various disorders that impair intestinal absorption.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Archives of Internal Medicine.
- polysilicon
- polysiloxane
- polysiphonic
- polysiphonous
- polysoap
- polysomal
- polysomatic
- polysomatism
- polysomaty
- polysome
- polysomic
- polysomnogram
- polysomnograph
- polysomnographer
- polysomnographic
- polysomnography
- polysomy
- polysorbate
- polyspast
- polyspaston
- polyspecific
- polysperm
- polyspermal
- polyspermic
- polyspermous