Word Meanings - MALNUTRITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Faulty or imperfect nutrition.

Related words: (words related to MALNUTRITION)

• IMPERFECT
  1. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient. Something he left imperfect in the state. Shak. Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. Shak. 2. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential
• IMPERFECTIBLE
  Incapable of being mad perfect.
• NUTRITION
  In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth. Note: In this wide sense it comprehends digestion,
• IMPERFECTIBILITY
  The state or quality of being imperfectible.
• NUTRITIONAL
  Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, nutritional changes.
• IMPERFECTNESS
  The state of being imperfect.
• FAULTY
  1. Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended. Created once So goodly and erect, though faulty since. Milton. 2. Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure. Shak. The king doth speak
• IMPERFECTION
  The quality or condition of being imperfect; want of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish. Sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head. Shak. Syn. -- Defect; deficiency; incompleteness; fault; failing; weakness;
• INNUTRITION
  Want of nutrition; failure of nourishment. E. Darwin.
• PRETERIMPERFECT
  Old name of the tense also called imperfect.
• FUNGI IMPERFECTI
  A heterogenous group of fungi of which the complete life history is not known. Some undoubtedly represent the conidium stages of various Ascomycetes. The group is divided into the orders Sphæropsidales, Melanconiales, and Moniliales.
• DENUTRITION
  The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.
• MALNUTRITION
  Faulty or imperfect nutrition.