MINERAL DEFICIENCY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Lack of a mineral micronutrient that is essential for normal nutrition or metabolism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("mineral deficiency" is a kind of...):

deficiency; lack; want (the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mineral deficiency"):

sideropenia (a deficiency of iron; results from inadequate iron in the diet or from hemorrhage)