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Malabsorption

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malabsorption /mal·ab·sorp·tion/ (mal?ab-sorp´shun) impaired intestinal absorption of nutrients.
mal·ab·sorp·tion (mlb-zôrpshn)
n.
Defective or inadequate absorption of nutrients from the intestinal tract.

Malabsorption
Defective or inadequate absorption of nutrients from the intestinal tract.

malabsorption,
n improper absorption of nutrients, characterized by deficiency of carbohydrates, fats, minerals, proteins, and vitamins and excess fat in the stool.

malabsorption
impaired intestinal absorption of nutrients.

fat malabsorption
malabsorption syndrome
a group of disorders marked by subnormal intestinal absorption of dietary constituents, and thus excessive loss of nutrients in the stool, with chronic diarrhea and weight loss; it may be due to a digestive defect, a mucosal abnormality, or lymphatic obstruction. A common disease in dogs and a major part of some of the enteric diseases of food animals. It is the pathogenesis of the diarrheas of trichostrongylosis of sheep and cattle, of the viral diarrheas of pigs and the undifferentiated chronic diarrheas of horses.

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