‘A depraved condition of the body, in which nutrition is everywhere defective.’ New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon

Originally: any wasting disorder. Now: severe loss of body weight, spec. (in Medicine) that caused in children by protein-energy malnutrition.

Lack of nutrition, failure of nourishment. innutrition of the bones (modern Latin innūtrītio ossium) = rickets, n.

= denutrition, n.

Nutrition which is not adequate to maintain good health, whether through insufficient or excessive intake of food, lack of essential dietary…

The opposite to nutrition; reversal of the nutritive process; in Medicine treatment by deprivation of nourishment. Also attributive.

Malnutrition, esp. in infants; marasmus.

= malnutrition, n.