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vitamin deficiency

vitamin deficiency

lack of a vitamin needed for normal bodily functions. For example, deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1) is often associated with severe and chronic alcoholism (see Wernicke’s encephalopathy; Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome).

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