It means you can't expand and altogether grow healthy and large upon something (mentally or physically- depending on what you are talking about).
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A coma patient can be treated for failure to thrive. Failure to thrive leads to coma or partial coma at times.
Failure to Thrive
Organic failure to thrive (OFTT) implies that the organs involved with digestion and absorption of food are malformed or incomplete so the baby cannot digest its food. Non-organic failure to thrive (NOFTT) is the most common cause of FTT
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Failure to thrive means that one or a group of people or things cannot live. This term is often applied to species in nature who are going extinct due to changing conditions.
Non-organic failure to thrive (NOFTT) is the most common cause of FTT and implies the baby is not receiving enough food due to economic factors or parental neglect, or do to psychosocial problems.
There are four causes of the engine failure. The four causes of the engine failure includes engine overheating, lubrication problems, misassembly , and detonation.
Human Immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is a lentivirus that causes progressive failure of the immune system and creates the opportunity for life-threatening infections and cancers to live and thrive in the body.
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Could be liver issues or could be failure to thrive (not providing with building blocks)....
Mismanagement of the parastatals by the top management is one of the causes of financial failure. Corruption and the use of the traditional methods are also the other causes of the financial failure in parastatals.
some disease are as follows anthrax, tick fever, feline enteritis, mange for captive cheetahs leukoencephalopathy neurologic disease gastritis intermittent vimiting, weight loss, failure to thrive amyloidosis in kidneys