UNDERNOURISHMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does undernourishment mean? 

• UNDERNOURISHMENT (noun)
  The noun UNDERNOURISHMENT has 1 sense:

1. not having enough food to develop or function normally

  Familiarity information: UNDERNOURISHMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDERNOURISHMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not having enough food to develop or function normally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

malnourishment; undernourishment

Hypernyms ("undernourishment" is a kind of...):

hunger; hungriness (a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation)

Derivation:

undernourish (provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment)

 Context examples 

MCPG is known to cause hypoglycaemic encephalopathy, a metabolic illness that affects the brain when body sugar levels are low due to fasting or undernourishment.

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