zinc deficiency

1. 1.

   a deficiency caused by inadequate zinc in the diet or by liver disease or cystic fibrosis or other diseases

   Broaderdeficiency disease

Questions about zinc deficiency

What does zinc deficiency mean?

zinc deficiency means "a deficiency caused by inadequate zinc in the diet or by liver disease or cystic fibrosis or other diseases".

Is zinc deficiency a common word?

zinc deficiency is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.