adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a pale, malnourished child
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During the 1930s a large proportion of Britain's urban population was malnourished .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Children who are malnourished with chronic diarrhoea have defective gastric acid secretion.
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Food packets were given to malnourished patients.
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For each treatment, nourished and malnourished patients responded similarly.
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It may be used to supplement the action of the indicated remedy in such anaemic or malnourished people.
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Many patients, especially the old and economically weak, are already malnourished when they go into hospital.
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Most are malnourished , only saved from starvation by water and food provided enroute by the Red Cross.
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None the less, ignorance and poverty continue to claim victims, particularly malnourished slum children, who are the most susceptible.
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Under the portico, bodies are sprawled, a tangle of limbs of malnourished young men.