栄養失調(えいようしっちょう)

えいようしっちょう
noun
malnutrition; nutritional deficiency
1. malnutrition; nutritional deficiency
A condition caused by insufficient, excessive, or imbalanced intake of nutrients, though most commonly referring to undernutrition.
栄養失調(えいようしっちょう)になる。
To become malnourished.
偏(かたよ)った食事(しょくじ)は栄養失調(えいようしっちょう)の原因(げんいん)になる。
An unbalanced diet can cause malnutrition.
戦後(せんご)の日本(にほん)では多(おお)くの子供(こども)が栄養失調(えいようしっちょう)に苦(くる)しんでいた。
In postwar Japan, many children suffered from malnutrition.

Compound of 栄養(えいよう) (nutrition) + 失調(しっちょう) (imbalance, disorder). Refers primarily to undernutrition — not getting enough essential nutrients — though technically it covers any nutritional imbalance.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS:

  • 栄養失調(えいようしっちょう)になる: to become malnourished
  • 栄養失調(えいようしっちょう)に陥(おちい)る: to fall into malnutrition
  • 栄養失調(えいようしっちょう)で倒(たお)れる: to collapse from malnutrition
  • 栄養失調(えいようしっちょう)状態(じょうたい): state of malnutrition

RELATED WORDS:

  • 栄養(えいよう): nutrition, nourishment
  • 栄養不足(えいようぶそく): nutritional deficiency — similar meaning, slightly more colloquial
  • 失調(しっちょう): disorder, imbalance — also appears in 自律神経失調症(じりつしんけいしっちょうしょう) (autonomic nervous disorder)

SIMILAR WORDS:

  • 飢餓(きが): starvation, famine — a more extreme state of not having enough food at all
  • 栄養過多(えいようかた): overnutrition — the opposite problem, excess nutrient intake
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