"failure to thrive" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: failures to thrive [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|failures to thrive}} failure to thrive (usually uncountable, plural failures to thrive)
  1. (pediatrics) Poor physical growth or level of weight, relative to one's age peers. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-failure_to_thrive-en-noun-NYFvi6GN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 27 29 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 47 24 29 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 47 23 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 46 30 24
  2. (medicine, chiefly geriatrics) Abnormal weight loss, malaise. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Medicine Translations (adult medicine): Gedeihstörung (German), izostanak očekivanoga normalnog fiziološkog razvoja (Serbo-Croatian), kopnjenje (Serbo-Croatian), nazadovanje [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), opća iznemoglost [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-failure_to_thrive-en-noun-myB95TCw Topics: medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'adult medicine': 0 76 24
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see failure, thrive. Tags: uncountable, usually Related terms: failure to launch
    Sense id: en-failure_to_thrive-en-noun-wisggdS0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (pediatrics): retard de croissance [masculine] (French), Gedeihstörung [feminine] (German), zastoj u rastu i razvoju [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian)
Disambiguation of 'pediatrics': 0 0 0

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