hypovitaminosis

English

Etymology

hypo- +‎ vitamin +‎ -osis

Noun

hypovitaminosis (countable and uncountable, plural hypovitaminoses)

1. (biology, medicine) vitamin deficiency: insufficiency of one or more essential vitamins in the body. Specific forms are labeled with the vitamin identifier: hypovitaminosis A, hypovitaminosis D, and so on, although those forms are more often called vitamin A deficiency, vitamin D deficiency, and so on.

Antonyms

• hypervitaminosis

Hyponyms

• hypovitaminosis A (vitamin A deficiency)
• hypovitaminosis D (vitamin D deficiency)

Related terms

• hypovitaminotic