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Meaning of "avitaminosis" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF AVITAMINOSIS

avitaminosis  [æˌvɪtəmɪnˈəʊsɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AVITAMINOSIS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Avitaminosis is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AVITAMINOSIS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Avitaminosis

Avitaminosis is any disease caused by chronic or long-term vitamin deficiency or caused by a defect in metabolic conversion, such as tryptophan to niacin. They are designated by the same letter as the vitamin. Conversely hypervitaminosis is the syndrome of symptoms caused by over-retention of fat-soluble vitamins in the body.

Definition of avitaminosis in the English dictionary

The definition of avitaminosis in the dictionary is any disease caused by a vitamin deficiency in the diet.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AVITAMINOSIS


antibiosis
ˌæntɪbaɪˈəʊsɪs
apotheosis
əˌpɒθɪˈəʊsɪs
babesiosis
bəˌbiːzɪˈəʊsɪs
berylliosis
bəˌrɪlɪˈəʊsɪs
coccidiosis
kɒkˌsɪdɪˈəʊsɪs
endometriosis
ˌɛndəʊˌmiːtrɪˈəʊsɪs
gliosis
ɡlaɪˈəʊsɪs
kaolinosis
ˌkeɪəlɪnˈəʊsɪs
listeriosis
lɪˌstɪərɪˈəʊsɪs
meiosis
maɪˈəʊsɪs
miosis
maɪˈəʊsɪs
mononucleosis
ˌmɒnəʊˌnjuːklɪˈəʊsɪs
monosis
mɒnˈəʊsɪs
myosis
maɪˈəʊsɪs
necrobiosis
ˌnɛkrəʊbaɪˈəʊsɪs
pneumoconiosis
ˌnjuːməʊˌkəʊnɪˈəʊsɪs
sarcoidosis
ˌsɑːkɔɪdˈəʊsɪs
scoliosis
ˌskɒlɪˈəʊsɪs
semiosis
ˌsɛmɪˈəʊsɪs
symbiosis
ˌsɪmbɪˈəʊsɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AVITAMINOSIS

avidly
avidness
Aviemore
aviette
avifauna
avifaunal
aviform
Avignon
avine
avion
avionic
avionics
avirulent
avisandum
avisement
aviso
avital
avitaminoses
avitaminotic
avizandum

WORDS THAT END LIKE AVITAMINOSIS

acrocyanosis
calcinosis
cyanosis
diagnosis
enosis
gnosis
hypnosis
kenosis
melanosis
misdiagnosis
necrosis
overdiagnosis
pollinosis
prognosis
self-hypnosis
serodiagnosis
stenosis
trichinosis
vaginosis
X-ray diagnosis
zoonosis

Synonyms and antonyms of avitaminosis in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «avitaminosis» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AVITAMINOSIS

Find out the translation of avitaminosis to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of avitaminosis from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «avitaminosis» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

维生素缺乏症
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

avitaminosis
570 millions of speakers

English

avitaminosis
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विटामिनाल्पता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عوز فيتاميني
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

авитаминоз
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

avitaminose
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

avitaminosis
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

avitaminose
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Avitaminosis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Avitaminose
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ビタミン欠乏症
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

avitaminosis
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Avitaminosis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

avitaminosis
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

avitaminosis
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जीवनसत्त्वांची निर्मिती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

avitaminosis
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

avitaminosi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

awitaminozy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

авітаміноз
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

avitaminoza
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αβιταμίνωση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

avitaminose
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avitaminosis
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

avitaminosis
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of avitaminosis

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AVITAMINOSIS»

The term «avitaminosis» is normally little used and occupies the 118.776 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AVITAMINOSIS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «avitaminosis» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «avitaminosis» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about avitaminosis

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AVITAMINOSIS»

Discover the use of avitaminosis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to avitaminosis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Avitaminosis—Advances in Research and Treatment: 2012 ...
Introduction. Avitaminosis—Advances in Research and Treatment / 2012 Edition is a ScholarlyPaperTM that delivers timely, authoritative, and intensively focused information about Avitaminosis in a compact format. The editors have built ...
‎2012
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Health Longevity Vital force Vitamin A $0 Carotin xx Vitamins. Fat-soluble Example under Vitamins Vitamin A deficiency sa Xerophthalmia xx Avitaminosis Vitamin A deficiency in children .\.\- Malnutrition in children Vitamin A in animal nutrition ...
Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division, 1980
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
T4] UF Thiamine deficiency [Former heading] BT Avitaminosis NT Wernicke's encephalopathy Vitamin Bl in human nutrition (bday Subd Geog) [QP772. T5 ( Biochemistry)] BT Nutrition Vitamin B2 [QP772.R5 (Physiology)] UF Lactoflavin ...
Library of Congress, 2001
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New Parrot Handbook
Avitaminosis-B6 (Vitamin B Deficiency) "Avitaminosis" is a general term for diseases caused by deficiency of one or more vitamins. Avitaminosis-B — a deficiency of vitamins of the B complex — deserves special mention because it affects the ...
Werner Lantermann, Matthew M. Vriends, 1986
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
S36] BT Avitaminosis NT Scurvy Vitamin C in animal nutrition [SF98. V5] BT Vitamins in animal nutrition Vitamin content of food USE Food-Vitamin content Vitamin D BT Steroid hormones Vitamins, Fat-soluble NT Ergocalciferol Vitamin D2 ...
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Bulletin
12. Avitaminosis B was formerly called beriberi or polyneuritis. 13. Avitaminosis D was formerly called rickets or leg weakness. External symptoms. (Elevated Temperature Diseases. [Cholera. Fowl typhoid. Blackhead. Bacillary. External ...
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Elsevier's Dictionary of Vitamins and Pharmacochemistry
(Avidin, an egg white protein with high affinity to biotin, turning it inactive, due to its resistance to digestive enzymes.) an Avidin gebundenes Biotin n biotinefliée a l'avidine biotina f ligada à avidina avitaminosis (Vit.) (Deficiency disease caused  ...
Henry Philippsborn, 2006
8
Handbook of Nutrition and Ophthalmology
An investigation into an acute outbreak of 'central neuritis'. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 1918; 12: 109— 1 96. Wright EJ. Disease due to A and B avitaminosis in Sierra Leone. West Afr Med J 1928;2:127—130. Leitch JN. Dietetics in warm climates, ...
Richard David Semba, 2007
9
Phosphagenkinases
B. E-AVITAMINOSIS Special attention of investigators is dedicated to the effect of vitamin E upon the level of creatine kinase activity. 27-2K It is well known that one of the functions of vitamin E is its participation in the development of muscles ...
S. N. Lyzlova, V. E. Stefanov, 1990
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Epidemiology and Demography in Public Health
Also, the etiological avitaminosis research to some extent recalled black box epidemiology: The most important aim was to find measures to prevent the diseases more or less irrespective of the pathogenetic mechanisms involved. Beriberi ...
Japhet Killewo, Kristian Heggenhougen, Stella R. Quah, 2010

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AVITAMINOSIS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term avitaminosis is used in the context of the following news items.
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Madrid's hungry years
And as the siege wore on, the impact of this poor diet began to show itself through illness and diseases such as avitaminosis, pellagra, hunger ... «EL PAÍS in English, Apr 15»
2
Quinlan re-examined
... one point have caused additional mechanisms for selective vulnerability, such as an extreme form of Wernicke's disease (B1 avitaminosis)? «RenewAmerica, Sep 14»
3
Fiction Chronicle: Hearts Linked by Pain
He floridly describes the hideous litany of diseases that condemn many of them—pellagra, beriberi, avitaminosis, amoebic dysentery, cerebral ... «Wall Street Journal, Aug 14»
4
How Wonder Bread Saved Civilization
In all, 2.2 per cent of the men were judged to have clinical evidence of avitaminosis. …Data from various agencies were analyzed and field ... «Chicagomag.com, Mar 14»
5
Last Survivor of Greek Submarine Papanikolis
In 1941 Tasiakos was diagnosed with scurvy and avitaminosis and was hospitalized before heading to Egypt. When the war ended, ... «Greek Reporter, Oct 12»
6
FDA Warns of Vitamin Product With Toxic A and D Levels
Soladek is marketed as a treatment for "hypo and avitaminosis, rickets, growth, dentition, lactation, fractures, infection, convalescence, ... «MedPage Today, Mar 11»
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FDA Warns Consumers to Stop Using Soladek Vitamin Solution
Soladek is marketed with claims that the product treats “hypo and avitaminosis, rickets, growth, dentition, lactation, fractures, infection, ... «FDA.gov, Mar 11»
8
Idiopathic Sialadenosis-Salivary Gland Clinic Columbia University …
... pregnancy and lactation), Metabolic (Alcoholism, Cirrhosis, avitaminosis A, kwashiorkor, mang, beriberi and pellagra), Neurogenic (Anorexia ... «PR Web, Jan 05»

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