vitamin deficiency disease

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• 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 disease — noun any disease caused by a lack of an essential nutrient (as a vitamin or mineral) • Hypernyms: ↑disease • Hyponyms: ↑malnutrition, ↑zinc deficiency …   Useful english dictionary

• deficiency disease — n. disease caused by the deficiency of essential nutrient or other substance required for growth (such as vitamin or mineral) …   English contemporary dictionary

• deficiency disease — noun Date: 1912 a disease (as scurvy) caused by a lack of essential dietary elements and especially a vitamin or mineral …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• deficiency disease — noun a disease caused by the lack of some essential element in the diet, usually a particular vitamin or mineral …   English new terms dictionary

• Vitamin B12 — Systematic (IUPAC) name α (5,6 dimethylbenzimidazolyl)coba …   Wikipedia

• Vitamin B12 deficiency — Classification and external resources Cyanocobalamin ICD 10 E …   Wikipedia

• Vitamin K — has also been used as a slang term for ketamine, an unrelated anaesthetic. Vitamin K1 (phylloquinone). Both forms of the vitamin contain a functional naphthoquinone ring and an aliphatic side chain. Phylloquinone has a phytyl side chain …   Wikipedia

• vitamin — vitaminic, adj. /vuy teuh min/; Brit. also /vit euh min/, n. any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism, found in minute amounts in natural foodstuffs or sometimes produced synthetically: deficiencies… …   Universalium

• Vitamin — This article is about the set of organic compounds. For the nutritional supplement preparation, see multivitamin. For the manga, see Vitamin (manga) …   Wikipedia

• vitamin B12 — ▪ chemical compound       a complex water soluble organic compound that is essential to a number of microorganisms and animals, including humans. vitamin B12 aids in the development of red blood cells in higher animals. The vitamin, which is… …   Universalium