vitamin deficiency
Missing essential nutrients
A vitamin deficiency is a lack of one or more vitamins needed for normal body function.
Deficiencies cause specific conditions—scurvy from lack of vitamin C, rickets from vitamin D deficiency, beriberi from insufficient B1.
The doctor suspected a vitamin deficiency was causing her fatigue.
Severe deficiencies are rare in developed countries but common historically and in malnourished populations.
- pellagraNiacin-lack illness
- beriberiVitamin B1 deficiency disease
- scurvyVitamin C deficiency disease
- bleeding gumsBlood from mouth tissue
- fatigueWeariness from prolonged exertion
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- health problemsdisease, cancer, diabetes, illness, heart disease
- health risksobesity, diabetes, smoking, hypertension, air pollution
- hungerhunger, hungry, starving, starvation, famished
- deficienciesdeficit, lack, shortage, insufficiency, shortfall
- Diet Therapytherapeutic diet, elimination diet, ketogenic diet, low sodium diet, high protein diet
- malnutritionmalnutrition, malnourished, undernourished, undernourishment, starvation