| 单词 | malnutrition |
| 释义 | malnutrition (once / 10854 pages) n Malnutrition is a condition resulting from an unbalanced diet or insufficient food. If you live for an entire year on Twinkies and diet soda, you will undoubtedly suffer from malnutrition. When you break apart the word malnutrition, it’s easy to remember what it means. You’re probably already familiar with nutrition, which refers to taking in or using food. Add on the prefix mal-, meaning “bad,” and you get a word that means “bad nutrition.” If you suffer from malnutrition, that means you aren’t getting the right balance of nutrients. This can be caused by not getting enough to eat, or it can be caused by not eating enough healthy foods. WORD FAMILYmalnutrition: malnutritions USAGE EXAMPLESIn two of South Sudan’s 10 regions, Unity and Northern Bahr el-Ghazal, malnutrition is at more than double the emergency threshold level. Los Angeles Times(Dec 28, 2016) Girls suffer disproportionately from malnutrition and are less likely than in most other countries to be found in the best universities, parliament or the boardroom. Wall Street Journal(Dec 26, 2016) They returned only in September, and said malnutrition remained a serious issue. BBC(Dec 22, 2016) n a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods Hypo|Hyper avitaminosis, hypovitaminosis any of several diseases caused by deficiency of one or more vitamins kwashiorkorsevere malnutrition in children resulting from a diet excessively high in carbohydrates and low in protein marasmusextreme malnutrition and emaciation (especially in children); can result from inadequate intake of food or from malabsorption or metabolic disorders beriberiavitaminosis caused by lack of thiamine (vitamin B1) Alpine scurvy, Saint Ignatius' itch, maidism, mal de la rosa, mal rosso, mayidism, pellagraa disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments rachitis, ricketschildhood disease caused by deficiency of vitamin D and sunlight associated with impaired metabolism of calcium and phosphorus scorbutus, scurvya condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) moon blindness, night blindness, nyctalopiainability to see clearly in dim light; due to a deficiency of vitamin A or to a retinal disorder deficiency disease any disease caused by a lack of an essential nutrient (as a vitamin or mineral) |
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