Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Incomplete or imperfect assimilation of nutrients by the body.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, imperfect assimilation or nutrition; faulty digestion and appropriation of nutriment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Imperfect digestion of the several leading constituents of the food.
- noun An imperfect elaboration by the tissues of the materials brought to them by the blood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Imperfect
digestion of the several leadingconstituents offood . - noun An imperfect
elaboration by thetissues of thematerials brought to them by thebloodstream .
Etymologies
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mal- + assimilation
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Examples
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If he does not actually die from the effects of the wrongly treated typhoid fever, he will be troubled all his life with intestinal indigestion, constipation, malassimilation and the accompanying nervous disorders.
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It will take him, perhaps, months or years to die a gradual, miserable death through malassimilation and malnutrition, which usually end in some form of wasting disease, such as pernicious anemia or tuberculosis.
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During his shanty-life Thoreau was imperfectly nourished, and for the victim of malassimilation, tuberculosis hunts and needs no spyglass.
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