mineral deficiency

Other forms: mineral deficiencies

Definitions of mineral deficiency
  1. noun
    lack of a mineral micronutrient that is essential for normal nutrition or metabolism
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    types:
    sideropenia
    a deficiency of iron; results from inadequate iron in the diet or from hemorrhage
    type of:
    deficiency, lack, want
    the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
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