Failure To Thrive Definition

noun
A significant delay in the physical growth of an infant or young child, caused by an organic, psychological, or environmental disturbance.
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Used other than as an idiom: see failure,"Ž thrive.

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(uncountable, pediatrics) Poor physical growth or level of weight, relative to one's age peers.
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(uncountable, medicine, chiefly geriatrics) Abnormal weight loss, malaise.

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Noun

Singular:
failure to thrive
Plural:
failures to thrive

Failure To Thrive Sentence Examples

  • Children with failure to thrive are often not meeting those milestones.

  • Most diagnoses of failure to thrive are made in infants and toddlers in the first few years of life.

  • An estimated 10 percent of children seen in primary care settings have symptoms of failure to thrive.

  • The causes of failure to thrive are typically differentiated into organic and non-organic.

  • The most common cause of failure to thrive is malnutrition, either as part of an organic problem or simply because of an energy imbalance.

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