avitaminosis

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ vitamin +‎ -osis.

Pronunciation

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Noun

avitaminosis (usually uncountable, plural avitaminoses)

  1. Any disease which is caused by vitamin deficiency.
    • 2013, Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Chatto & Windus (2014), page 45:
      Watching him, Dorrigo Evans wondered if it was avitaminosis or the combined damage of several maladies that had done this—whatever the cause, he was painfully aware that food would cure this and almost all of the afflictions he saw.

Translations

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English avitaminosis.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /avitamiˈnosis/ [a.fi.t̪a.miˈno.sɪs]
  • Rhymes: -osis
  • Syllabification: a‧vi‧ta‧mi‧no‧sis

Noun

avitaminosis (uncountable)

  1. (pathology) avitaminosis

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