vita-, vito-, vit- +
(Latin: life, living, pertaining to life, essential to life)
hypervitaminosis, supervitaminosis
1. A condition due to the ingestion of an excess of one or more vitamins.
2. A physical disorder resulting from a nonspecific vitamin excess.
hypervitaminosis A
A symptom complex resulting from ingestion of excessive amounts of vitamin A, with hair loss, skin disorders, headache, bone and joint pain, anorexia, fatigue, irritability, hyperostosis, hepatosplenomegaly, papilledema, and pseudotumor cerebri (increased pressure within the brain in the absence of a tumor).
hypervitaminosis D
A symptom complex resulting from ingestion of excessive amounts of vitamin D, with weakness, fatigue, loss of weight, and other negative symptoms.
hypervitaminotic
A reference to, or characterized by, hypervitaminosis (a condition in which adverse physical effects are caused by taking in too much of one or more vitamins).
hypovitaminosis, paravitaminosis, vitanition
1. A physical disorder resulting from nonspecific vitamin deficiency.
2. A condition due to a deficiency of one or more essential vitamins.
intra vitam
During life: "The biologists were busy staining tissues intra vitam."
Lux tua vita mihi.
Your light is my life.
megavitamin
A dose of a vitamin, or vitamins, vastly exceeding the amount recommended, or required, for nutritional balance.
Mors tua, vita mea.
Your death, my life.
It also means, "You must die so that I may live." A reference to someone who can preserve his own life only by taking the life of another. For instance, it could refer to a very ill patient who is waiting for an organ transplant from a dying donor or some other situation in which a person's life is dependent upon the death of another person.
Non scholae, sed vitae discimus.
We do not learn just for school, but we learn for life. -Seneca, Jr.
oleovitamin
A solution of a vitamin in oil.
polyavitaminosis
A condition resulting from a dietary deficiency of more than one vitamin.
Quid est vita sine philosophia?
What is life without philosophy? or What is life without a love of/for wisdom?
revitalization
Giving new life, or vigor, to someone or something.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.
—Christopher Morley
revitalize
1. To give fresh life, vigor, or vitality to someone or something.
2. To restore one's strength; such as, changing one's diet to more wholesome food.
Related life, live-word units:
anima-;
bio-;
-cole;
viva-.