failure to thrive (English, noun)
expansion: failure to thrive (usually uncountable, plural failures to thrive)
Senses:
glosses: Poor physical growth or level of weight, relative to one's age peers.
tags: uncountable
usually
topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: chiefly geriatrics
glosses: Abnormal weight loss, malaise.
tags: uncountable
usually
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see failure, thrive.
tags: uncountable
usually
Forms:
form: failures to thrive
tags: plural