deficiency diseases
Lack-caused health problems
Deficiency diseases are illnesses caused by insufficient intake or absorption of essential nutrients—vitamins, minerals, or other substances the body cannot produce on its own.
Scurvy results from vitamin C deficiency, rickets from vitamin D, anemia often from iron.
The term appears in medical and nutritional contexts: Many deficiency diseases are preventable through proper diet.
- wasting syndromePathological progressive tissue loss
- muscle wastingLoss of tissue mass
- scurvyVitamin C deficiency disease
- bleeding gumsBlood from mouth tissue
- megaloblastic anemiaDefective red cell maturation
rickets · goiter · beriberi · pellagra · night blindness · brittle bones · pernicious anemia · stunting · osteoporosis · undernutrition · low birth weight · cachexia · dry skin · hair loss · cognitive decline · joint pain · hypocalcemia · cretinism
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Pathogen-caused transmissible conditions
poisoning · infections · chemical poisoning · contagious diseases · communicable diseases
deficiency diseaseshypercalcemia
High blood calcium
hemochromatosis · water intoxication · metabolic syndrome · gout · hyperlipidemia
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