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noun a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods
originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-? Proto-Italic *malos Latin malus Latin maleder. Old French mal- English mal- English nutrition English malnutrition From mal- + nutrition.
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