hypovitaminosis

== English == === Etymology === From hypo- +‎ vitamin +‎ -osis. === Noun === hypovitaminosis (countable and uncountable, plural hypovitaminoses) (biology, medicine) vitamin deficiency: insufficiency of one or more essential vitamins in the body. Specific forms are labeled with the vitamin identifier: hypovitaminosis A, hypovitaminosis D, and so on, although those forms are more often called vitamin A deficiency, vitamin D deficiency, and so on. ==== Antonyms ==== hypervitaminosis ==== Hyponyms ==== hypovitaminosis A (vitamin A deficiency) hypovitaminosis D (vitamin D deficiency) ==== Related terms ==== hypovitaminotic