hypervitaminosis

hypervitaminosis

English

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ vitamin +‎ -osis.

Noun

hypervitaminosis (countable and uncountable, plural hypervitaminoses)

1. Any medical condition resulting from excessive intake of vitamins.
   • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA 2003, p. 398:

     The woman's bones were deformed and covered in coarse growths, the result of an agonizing condition called hypervitaminosis A, which can only come from eating the liver of a carnivore.

Antonyms

• hypovitaminosis

Related terms

• hypervitaminotic

Translations

medical condition

Arabic: ‫فَرْط الفيتامين‬‎ m Japanese: ビタミン過剰症 (ビタミンかじょうしょう, bitamin-kajōshō)