Synonyms for malnutrition
ˌmæl nuˈtrɪʃ ən, -nyu-mal·nu·tri·tion

Princeton's WordNet

1. malnutritionnoun

   a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods

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1. • Deficiency Disease

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1. List of paraphrases for "malnutrition":

   undernutrition, malnourishment, undernourishment, nutrition, feeding, under-nutrition, nutritional

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1. Paul Auerbach:

   They will likely be dehydrated and suffer from acute malnutrition, which will combine to make them weak, so they will need to have a great deal of assistance for safety, they have lost muscle mass and may have body chemistry abnormalities. So the medical evaluation and treatment will undoubtedly include rehydration, either intravenously or orally. It's possible that some of them may have suffered infectious diarrhea.

2. Julien Harneis:

   We've got an increase in both severe acute malnutrition and chronic malnutrition.

3. Pope Francis:

   This culture of waste has made us insensitive even to the waste and disposal of food, which is even more despicable when all over the world many individuals and families are suffering from hunger and malnutrition. we should all remember, however, that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the poor, the hungry.

4. John Aylieff:

   We know it's a very precipitous decline into severe acute malnutrition in these areas once the food runs out and that's why we are so concerned, if the food runs out in May and June ... it (malnutrition) is going to be off the scale.

5. Alex Comfort:

   We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.