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avitaminoses

avitaminoses is the plural of avitaminosis.

Meaning of avitaminosis

Noun

avitaminosis (usually uncountable, plural avitaminoses)

  1. (usually) Any disease which is caused by vitamin deficiency.
    • Watching him, Dorrigo Evans wondered if it was avitaminosis or the combined damage of several maladies that had done this—whatever the cause, he was painfully aware that food would cure this and almost all of the afflictions he saw.2013, Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Chatto & Windus (2014), page 45

Questions about avitaminoses

What is avitaminoses the plural of?
Avitaminoses is the plural of avitaminosis.

Words near avitaminoses in the dictionary

  1. avisodomy
  2. avisoes
  3. avisos
  4. Avitable
  5. avital
  6. avitaminoses
  7. avitaminosis
  8. avitaminotic
  9. Avitia
  10. Avitias
  11. avitour

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