(biology, medicine) vitamin deficiency: insufficiency of one or more essential vitamins in the body. Specific forms are labeled with the vitamin identifier: hypovitaminosis A, hypovitaminosis D, and so on, although those forms are more often called vitamin A deficiency, vitamin D deficiency, and so on.
impoverishments
impoverishments
noun
plural of impoverishment
machiavellistic
overnourishment
overnourishment
noun
Excessive nourishment.
thermosensitive
thermosensitive
adj
That shows a reaction to heat.
vagosympathetic
vagosympathetic
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the vagus nerve and the sympathetic nervous system
