failure to thrive

failure to thrive

English

Noun

failure to thrive (usually uncountable, plural failures to thrive)

1. (pediatrics) Poor physical growth or level of weight, relative to one's age peers.
2. (medicine, chiefly geriatrics) Abnormal weight loss, malaise.
3. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see failure,‎ thrive.

Translations

pediatrics

French: retard de croissance m German: Gedeihstörung f

Serbo-Croatian: zastoj u rastu i razvoju m

adult medicine

French: please add this translation if you can German: Gedeihstörung

Serbo-Croatian: izostanak očekivanoga normalnog fiziološkog razvoja, kopnjenje (sh), nazadovanje n, opća iznemoglost f