failure to thrive

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failure to thrive (usually uncountable, plural failures to thrive)

  1. (pediatrics) Poor physical growth or level of weight, relative to one's age peers.
  2. (medicine, chiefly geriatrics) Abnormal weight loss, malaise.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see failure,‎ thrive.

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