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Malnutrition vs Malabsorption - What's the difference?

malnutrition | malabsorption |

As nouns the difference between malnutrition and malabsorption

is that malnutrition is a lack of adequate nourishment while malabsorption is the state arising from abnormality in digestion or absorption of food nutrients across the gastrointestinal tract.

malnutrition

English

(wikipedia malnutrition)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • a lack of adequate nourishment

    • malabsorption

    English

    (wikipedia malabsorption)

    Noun

  • The state arising from abnormality in digestion or absorption of food nutrients across the gastrointestinal tract.