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innutrition

American  
[in-noo-trish-uhn, -nyoo-] / ˌɪn nuˈtrɪʃ ən, -nyu- /

noun

  1. lack of nutrition.


innutrition British  
/ ˌɪnjuːˈtrɪʃən /

noun

  1. lack or absence of nutrition Compare malnutrition

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of innutrition

First recorded in 1790–1800; in- 3 + nutrition

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Distortion of the spine is another disease originating from the innutrition or softness of the bones.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

And when once on the downward slope, chronic innutrition is an important factor in sapping vitality and hastening the descent.

From The People of the Abyss by London, Jack

The pathological consequences of continued and prolonged pressure on any vital structure are innutrition, congestion, inflammation, and ulceration, resulting in weakness, waste of substance, and destruction of tissue.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

Their timid possessor seemed to be a girl of seventeen, whose figure, although apparently clad in one of her mother's gowns, was still undeveloped and repressed by rustic hardship and innutrition.

From Susy, a story of the Plains by Harte, Bret

Their one sacred obligation to the immortal germ-plasm of which they are the trustees is to see that they hand it on with its maximal possibilities undimmed by innutrition, poisons or vice.

From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Guyer, Michael F.

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