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hypovitaminosis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
hy-povi-ta-minosis
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

vitamin deficiency: insufficiency of one or more essential vitamins in the body. Specific forms are labeled with the vitamin identifier: hypovitaminosis A, hypovitaminosis D, and so on, although those forms are more often called vitamin A deficiency, vitamin D deficiency, and so on.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From hypo- + vitamin + -osis.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

hypovitaminoses (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

hypovitaminotic

Synonyms

avitaminosis

Antonyms

hypervitaminosis

Questions

What does hypovitaminosis mean?
vitamin deficiency: insufficiency of one or more essential vitamins in the body. Specific forms are labeled with the vitamin identifier: hypovitaminosis A, hypovitaminosis D, and so on, although those forms are more often called vitamin A deficiency, vitamin D deficiency, and so on.
Where does hypovitaminosis come from?
From hypo- + vitamin + -osis.

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