Word.ws English Dictionary

hypoproduction

hypoproduction noun: unusually low production of some substance in an organism.

Noun

hypoproduction (uncountable)

  1. Unusually low production of some substance in an organism.
    • These include hemolysis of peripheral erythrocytes, iron deficiency through inefficient duodenal iron absorption leading to inhibition of heme synthesis, and renal anemia characterized by hypoproduction of erythropoietin.2015 July 11, “Preferential Elimination of Older Erythrocytes in Circulation and Depressed Bone Marrow Erythropoietic Activity Contribute to Cadmium Induced Anemia in Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of hypoproduction

From hypo- + production.

Questions about hypoproduction

What does hypoproduction mean?
Hypoproduction means unusually low production of some substance in an organism.
What part of speech is hypoproduction?
Hypoproduction is a noun.

Words near hypoproduction in the dictionary

  1. hypoproaccelerinemia
  2. hypoproconvertinaemia
  3. hypoproconvertinemia
  4. hypoproct
  5. hypoprocts
  6. hypoproduction
  7. hypoproductive
  8. hypoprofusion
  9. hypoprolactinemia
  10. hypoproliferation
  11. hypoproliferations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hypoproduction (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hypoproduction.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hypoproduction. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.