nutritional deficiency disease
MONDO:0006873Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names nutritional deficiency disease yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A condition produced by dietary or metabolic deficiency. The term includes all diseases caused by an insufficient supply of essential nutrients, i.e., protein (or amino acids), vitamins, and minerals. It also includes an inadequacy of calories. (From Dorland, 27th ed; Stedman, 25th ed)
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0006873), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
- Narrower terms (14)
Other names
2 names
Resolves to: nutritional deficiency disease
- Also called
- malnourishedmalnutrition