mineral deficiency — noun lack of a mineral micronutrient that is essential for normal nutrition or metabolism • Hypernyms: ↑lack, ↑deficiency, ↑want • Hyponyms: ↑sideropenia … Useful english dictionary
deficiency disease — n a disease (as scurvy) caused by a lack of essential dietary elements and esp. a vitamin or mineral * * * any disease caused by the lack of an essential nutrient in the diet. Such nutrients include vitamin, essential amino acid, and essential… … Medical dictionary
Deficiency, selenium — Deficiency of the essential mineral selenium causes Keshan disease, a fatal form of cardiomyopathy (disease of the heart muscle) first observed in Keshan province in China and since found elsewhere. According to the National Academy of Sciences,… … Medical dictionary
deficiency — n. defect inadequacy 1) a hearing; iron; mental; mineral; vitamin deficiency 2) (a) deficiency in incompleted work (as in school) (AE) 3) to make up a deficiency * * * [dɪ fɪʃ(ə)nsɪ] iron mental mineral vitamin deficiency … Combinatory dictionary
deficiency — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ major, serious, severe ▪ slight ▪ dietary, nutritional ▪ immune ▪ … Collocations dictionary
Mineral industry of Botswana — The mineral industry of Botswana has dominated the national economy since the early 1990s. Diamond has been the leading component of the mineral sector since large scale diamond production began 25 years ago. Most of Botswana’s diamond production … Wikipedia
deficiency disease — n. disease caused by the deficiency of essential nutrient or other substance required for growth (such as vitamin or mineral) … English contemporary dictionary
deficiency disease — noun any disease caused by a lack of an essential nutrient (as a vitamin or mineral) • Hypernyms: ↑disease • Hyponyms: ↑malnutrition, ↑zinc deficiency … Useful english dictionary
deficiency disease — noun Date: 1912 a disease (as scurvy) caused by a lack of essential dietary elements and especially a vitamin or mineral … New Collegiate Dictionary
deficiency disease — noun a disease caused by the lack of some essential element in the diet, usually a particular vitamin or mineral … English new terms dictionary
