nutritional deficiency
noun
generally insufficient nutrition for good health, sometimes involving an imbalance of nutrients or inadequate intake of certain ones.
nutritional deficiencies
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pluralof nutritional deficiency.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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One planned approach is stable isotope analysis, which could provide additional information about diet and help researchers better understand evidence of nutritional deficiencies.
From Science Daily β Aug. 30, 2026
Life expectancy would have been even higher if not for a small increase in deaths from the flu—2024-2025 was a particularly bad flu season—and nutritional deficiencies.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 27, 2026
The aid also prevented death from HIV/AIDS by 70%, and reduced deaths from malaria and nutritional deficiencies by 56%.
From Barron's β Feb. 2, 2026
Cases of malnutrition or nutritional deficiencies more than doubled from 16 to around 40 at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust over the same period.
From BBC β Nov. 19, 2025
Some variants of the illness were known to be caused by nutritional deficiencies.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
