Synonyms for malnutrition
ˌmæl nuˈtrɪʃ ən, -nyu-mal·nu·tri·tion

Princeton's WordNet

1. malnutritionnoun

   a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods

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1. • Deficiency Disease

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1. List of paraphrases for "malnutrition":

   undernutrition, malnourishment, undernourishment, nutrition, feeding, under-nutrition, nutritional

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1. Susan Tonuo:

   This has created break up of families and the rise of individualism, with children suffering malnutrition while others drop out of school.

2. Ingrid Wolfe:

   Very, very acutely significant malnutrition.

3. North Africa Peter Salama:

   But what is even more tragic is that hundreds of thousands more children might die if the conflict continues, and they will be largely due to preventable infectious diseases combined with malnutrition.

4. Misha Eliasziew:

   We know that malnutrition contributes to stunting and that stunting has negative long-term consequences. But. . . stunting is apt to be far more than a half inch to one inch.

5. Linda Etim:

   The malnutrition situation is classified as critical or very critical in more than half of the country.