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Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases

Medical Definition:	A collective term for nutritional disorders (result of poor assimilation or utilization of food) and metabolic disorders (result of poor metabolism or inherited enzyme abnormality).
Guide Notes:	not used for indexing; CATALOG: do not use

Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases Categories.

	Metabolic Diseases - Generic term for diseases caused by an abnormal metabolic process. It can be congenital due to inherited enzyme abnormality (METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS) or acquired due to disease of an endocrine organ or failure of a metabolically important organ such as the liver. (Stedman, 26th ed)
	Nutrition Disorders - Disorders caused by nutritional imbalance, either overnutrition or undernutrition.

Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases Medical Definitions and Terms

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