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noun
The state arising from abnormality in digestion or absorption of food nutrients across the gastrointestinal tract.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
abnormal absorption of nutrients from the digestive tract
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: assimilation, absorption
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-? Proto-Italic *malos Latin malus Latin maleder. Old French mal- English mal- Proto-Indo-European *h2ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h2epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin abder. Latin ab- Proto-Indo-European *srebh- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *srobhéyeti Proto-Italic *sorβeō Latin sorbeō Latin absorbeō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin absorptiōder. English absorption English malabsorption From mal- + absorption.
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