malnutrition

English

Wikipedia

A 1922 photograph by Fridtjof Nansen of two boys suffering from malnutrition

Etymology

mal- + nutrition

Noun

malnutrition (usually uncountable; plural malnutritions)

1. a lack of adequate nourishment

Translations

lack of adequate nourishment

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 營養不良 (cmn), 营养不良 (cmn) (yíngyǎng bùliáng)

• Czech: podvýživa (cs) f
• Danish: fejlernæring (da) c, underernæring (da) c
• Finnish: aliravitsemus (fi)
• French: malnutrition (fr) f

• German: Unterernährung (de) f, Mangelernährung (de) f
• Italian: denutrizione (it) f
• Japanese: 栄養失調 (ja) (えいようしっちょう, eiyō shitchō)
• Portuguese: desnutrição (pt) f
• Russian: недоедание (ru) (nedojedánije) n
• Spanish: desnutrición (es) f