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hypovitaminosis

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From hypo- + vitamin + -osis.

noun hypovitaminoses

  1. countable, uncountable 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.

Opposite: hypervitaminosis

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@misc{hypovitaminosis_2026,
  title = {hypovitaminosis},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hypovitaminosis},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}