Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mineral_deficiency

1 sense of mineral deficiency

Sense 1
mineral deficiency -- (lack of a mineral micronutrient that is essential for normal nutrition or metabolism)
       => lack, deficiency, want -- (the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost")