“vitamin deficiency”

*TYPES*

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*a ‘vitamin deficiency’ can cause a ‘disease’ (or ‘syndrome’) known as an “avita-minosis” or “hypo-vitaminosis”*

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(this usually refers to a ‘long-term deficiency’ of a ‘vitamin’)

“how long?”
“how much time i got left, doc?”

When caused by inadequate nutrition it can be classed as a primary deficiency,

and when due to an underlying disorder such as malabsorption it can be classed as a secondary deficiency.

An underlying disorder may be metabolic as in a defect converting tryptophan to niacin.

(it can also be the result of lifestyle choices including smoking and alcohol consumption)

Examples are 

vitamin A deficiency, 

folate deficiency,

(scurvy), 

vitamin D deficiency, 

vitamin E deficiency, and 

vitamin K deficiency

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(in the medical literature, any of these may also be called by names on the pattern of hypovitaminosis or avitaminosis + [letter of vitamin], for example…)

‘hypovitaminosis A’

‘hypovitaminosis C’

‘hypovitaminosis D’

(conversely, ‘hypervitaminosis’ is the ‘syndrome’ of ‘symptoms’ caused by ‘over-retention’ of ‘fat-soluble vitamins’ in the ‘body’)

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