Malnutrition - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: malnutritionmalnourished
Not getting adequate food suffering from malnutrition underfed...
malnutrition
Faulty or imperfect nutrition inadequate or unbalanced food intake...
Pellagra
An affection of the skin characterized by redness especially in exposed areas scaling and shedding of the skin and accompanied with severe gastrointestinal disturbance and nervous symptoms It is due to a deficiency of niacin vitamin B3 nicotinic acid and protein in the diet and may be caused by malnutrition or in some cases by a heavy dependence on maize for food It was at one time ca 1890 endemic in Northern Italy and was called Alpine scurvy It may also be caused by alcoholism or diease causing an impairment of nutrition It is also called St Ignatiuss itch maidism mal de la rosa mal rosso and psychoneurosis maidica A variety of pellagra seen in children is called infantile pellagra or kwashiorkor...
Disease
Disease, means an impairment or the normal state or the living animal that interrupts or modifies the performance of the vital functions being a response to environmental factors (as malnutrition, industrial hazards, or climate) or to specific infective agents (as worms, bacteria, or viruses) or to inherent defects of the organism (as various genetic anomalies) or to combinations of these factors, State of Goa v. Colfox Laboratories Ltd., (2004) 9 SCC 83: AIR 2004 SC 45(50).Means cattle plague or rinderpest, contagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle, foot and mouth disease, sheep-pox, sheep scab or swine fever. Animal Health Act, 1981 (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 484, p. 247....
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