单词 | malnutrition |
释义 | malnutritionn. Nutrition which is not adequate to maintain good health, whether through insufficient or excessive intake of food, lack of essential dietary components, or (rarely) malabsorption; a condition of poor health resulting from this. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered nutrition > [noun] > malnutrition cachexy?1541 marasmus1574 innutrition1796 denourishment1850 malnutrition1850 denutrition1868 athrepsia1885 malnourishment1921 1850 Dublin Med. Press 3 Apr. 212/1 The author took occasion here to contrast the characters of fatty degeneration of the heart with those of fatty degeneration of voluntary muscles.., the heart participating in a general mal-nutrition of the body. 1862 F. E. Anstie in Cornhill Mag. Sept. 323 Diseases of which the starting point is mal-nutrition. 1893 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Paratrophy A malnutrition. 1913 Times 7 Aug. 8/2 A strong case has been made out for intestinal stasis as a cause of various forms of malnutrition. 1938 Life 4 Apr. 10/1 The American Association of Social Workers reported that, with food allowances as low as $11.90 per month for a family of four, malnutrition is common. 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 14/2 Typical of this last concept is the replacement of the term ‘protein malnutrition’ by ‘malnutrition in calories from protein’. 1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 28 Mar. 714/1 Magnesium deficiency has been shown to play a prominent part in the so-called protein-calorie malnutrition syndromes. 1978 Nature 19 Jan. 203/3 Malnutrition..is common. In all Western countries the most common and obvious form is gluttony with consequent obesity. 1989 Green Mag. Dec. 49 (caption) Hummels—deer without antlers—are now thought to be caused by malnutrition when young. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1850 |
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