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... > Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases > Nutrition Disorders > Malnutrition > Deficiency Diseases > Avitaminosis > Vitamin K Deficiency
Hemic and Lymphatic Diseases > Hematologic Diseases > Hemorrhagic Disorders > Vitamin K Deficiency
Hemic and Lymphatic Diseases > Hematologic Diseases > Blood Coagulation Disorders > Vitamin K Deficiency

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Vitamin K Deficiency  

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  • Deficiencies, Vitamin K
  • Deficiency, Vitamin K
  • Vitamin K Deficiencies

Scope note

  • A nutritional condition produced by a deficiency of VITAMIN K in the diet, characterized by an increased tendency to hemorrhage (HEMORRHAGIC DISORDERS). Such bleeding episodes may be particularly severe in newborn infants. (From Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, p1182)

In other languages

  • K-vitamiinin puutos

    Finnish

  • deficientia vitamini K
  • K-vitamiinin puute
  • K-vitamiininpuute
  • K-vitamiinipuute
  • K-vitamiinipuutos
  • K-vitaminbrist
  • K-vitaminbrist

    Swedish

  • Vitamin K-brist

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014813

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