hypovitaminosis

Meaning

Noun

• 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.

Related

Opposite words

• hypervitaminosis

Narrower meaning words

• hypovitaminosis A (vitamin A deficiency)
• hypovitaminosis D (vitamin D deficiency)

Origin

• hypo- + -vitamin