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Etymology

From hyper- +‎ vitamin +‎ -osis.

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hypervitaminosis (countable and uncountable, plural hypervitaminoses)

  1. Any medical condition resulting from excessive intake of vitamins.
    • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 398:
      The woman's bones were deformed and covered in coarse growths, the result of an agonizing condition called hypervitaminosis A, which can only come from eating the liver of a carnivore.

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