undernutrition en · NOUN
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From under- + nutrition.
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(uncountable) Inadequate nutrition, either due to a lack of food, or to the inability of the body to absorb its nutrients.
Researchers exploring paleosyndemics […] offer new ways to interpret co-occurring diseases such as leprosy and plague epidemics in medieval Europe, or the relationship between mal- or undernutrition and infectious disease, or socio-economic oppression and chronic disease.
2023, Anne L. Grauer, “Introduction” (chapter 1), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 7:
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es desnutrición (inadequate nutrition) · pl niedożywienie (inadequate nutrition) · fi aliravitsemus (inadequate nutrition)