mineral deficiency
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Noun | 1. | mineral deficiency - lack of a mineral micronutrient that is essential for normal nutrition or metabolism sideropenia - a deficiency of iron; results from inadequate iron in the diet or from hemorrhage deficiency, lack, 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" |
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