Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a state of poor nutrition;
can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
malnutrition \mal`nu*tri"tion\, n. [Mal- + nutrition.]
(Physiol.)
Faulty or imperfect nutrition; inadequate or unbalanced food
intake.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
malnutrition
n 1: a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or
excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb
foods
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "malnutrition":
Lombardy leprosy, anemia, ariboflavinosis, beriberi, cachexia,
chlorosis, deficiency anemia, dermatitis, dietary deficiency,
goiter, greensickness, keratomalacia, kwashiorkor, maidism,
night blindness, osteomalacia, osteoporosis, pellagra,
pernicious anemia, protein deficiency, rachitis, rickets, scurvy,
struma, vitamin deficiency, xerophthalmia