dietary deficiency

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• dietary supplement — noun something added to complete a diet or to make up for a dietary deficiency • Hypernyms: ↑diet • Hyponyms: ↑vitamin pill …   Useful english dictionary

• Dietary mineral — Dietary minerals (also known as mineral nutrients) are the chemical elements required by living organisms, other than the four elements carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen present in common organic molecules. Examples of mineral elements… …   Wikipedia

• deficiency disease — n a disease (as scurvy) caused by a lack of essential dietary elements and esp. a vitamin or mineral * * * any disease caused by the lack of an essential nutrient in the diet. Such nutrients include vitamin, essential amino acid, and essential… …   Medical dictionary

• deficiency anemia — n NUTRITIONAL ANEMIA * * * anemia caused by lack of a specific substance required for normal hemoglobin synthesis and erythrocytic maturation and arising by several means, such as malabsorption or poor dietary intake. See folic acid deficiency a …   Medical dictionary

• Deficiency, selenium — Deficiency of the essential mineral selenium causes Keshan disease, a fatal form of cardiomyopathy (disease of the heart muscle) first observed in Keshan province in China and since found elsewhere. According to the National Academy of Sciences,… …   Medical dictionary

• deficiency disease — n. a disease, as rickets or pellagra, caused by a dietary lack of vitamins, minerals, etc. or by an inability to metabolize them …   English World dictionary

• Deficiency, iron — The most common known form of nutritional disorder in the world, iron deficiency results in anemia because iron is necessary to make hemoglobin, key molecule in red blood cells responsible for the transport of oxygen. In iron deficiency anemia,… …   Medical dictionary

• deficiency — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ major, serious, severe ▪ slight ▪ dietary, nutritional ▪ immune ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• Deficiency, zinc — According to the National Academy of Sciences, the Recommended Dietary Allowances of zinc are 12 milligrams per day for women and 10 milligrams per day for men. Food sources of zinc include meat including liver, eggs, seafood, nuts and cereal.… …   Medical dictionary

• dietary — adj. Dietary is used with these nouns: ↑deficiency, ↑fat, ↑fibre, ↑habit, ↑indiscretion, ↑ingredient, ↑intake, ↑modification, ↑need, ↑preference, ↑recommendation, ↑ …   Collocations dictionary

• Deficiency, magnesium — Can occur due to inadequate intake or impaired intestinal absorption of magnesium. Low magnesium (hypomagnesemia) is often associated with low calcium (hypocalcemia) and potassium (hypokalemia) levels. Deficiency of magnesium causes increased… …   Medical dictionary