Poor nutrition or malnutrition; a diseased condition resulting from inadequate or bad nutrition.
From Greek 'kakos' (bad) + 'trophē' (nourishment). This medical term describes the physical consequences of poor diet or inability to properly absorb nutrients.
Cacotrophia was an important diagnosis in pre-modern medicine when malnutrition was extremely common, and it's interesting that doctors gave it a specific name—recognizing that bad nutrition caused a distinct pathological state, not just hunger.
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