A state of lacking proper nutrition or being deprived of essential nutrients; malnutrition.
From the prefix 'de-' (removal, reversal) combined with 'nutrition,' derived from Latin 'nutrire' (to nourish). The word describes the removal or absence of adequate nutrition.
Though 'malnutrition' is more common today, 'denutrition' appears in older medical literature and reveals how 19th-century doctors systematically created '-tion' nouns to name conditions—it's essentially the same concept as malnutrition but shows language evolution in medicine.
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