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Abstract
An imbalanced nutritional status resulting from insufficient intake of nutrients to meet normal physiological requirement.
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- Malnourishment
- Nutritional Deficiency
- Undernutrition
- Malnourishments
- Nutritional Deficiencies
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35 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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History Note
2004; use NUTRITION DISORDERS 1975-2003
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Previous Indexing
- Nutrition Disorders (1964-2003)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Malnutrition. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D044342. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D044342
- Malnutrition. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malnutrition
- Malnutrition. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12167