deficiency disease

noun

Definition of deficiency disease

: a disease (such as scurvy) caused by a lack of essential dietary elements and especially a vitamin or mineral

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By artificially adding vitamins and minerals back in, deficiency diseases like rickets and beriberi were largely eliminated from the Western world. — Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, "You Are What You Eat, And What You Eat Is Millions of Microbes," 14 June 2017

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deficiency disease

noun

Medical Definition of deficiency disease

: a disease (as scurvy) caused by a lack of essential dietary elements and especially a vitamin or mineral

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