Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A progressive wasting of the body, occurring chiefly in young children and associated with insufficient intake or malabsorption of food.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a wasting of the flesh.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis.
- noun progressive atrophy of the aged.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine Any
wasting disease , especially a severe loss of body weight, in children, caused bymalnutrition or the inability todigest protein
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun extreme malnutrition and emaciation (especially in children); can result from inadequate intake of food or from malabsorption or metabolic disorders
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He had got something which Mrs. Nevill Tyson had never heard of -- "marasmus," the doctor called it.
The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) May Sinclair 1904
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In rural areas, lack of proper nutrition can lead to common diseases such as marasmus, leading to chronic weight loss, and kwashiorkor, resulting from a lack of protein which leads to dangerous swelling of the feet and legs.
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Underprivileged under classes comparisons to Spitzer, Sanford unfettered access to procreative partners kwashiorkor, marasmus & obesity blind following of atavistic evolutionary behavioral impulses unrepentant Trotskyites after victorious fascism as in Goldman Saks Obama nexussteve harQuote
The Volokh Conspiracy » Books I Would Recommend to those Who Disagree With Me 2009
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The babies that died earlier this year had apparently suffered from severe malnutrition, kwashiorkor, pneumonia, poor sanitation and marasmus.
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The babies in Ukhahlamba had died from severe malnutrition, kwashiorkor, pneumonia, poor sanitation and marasmus, the Department said.
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+ Amulets, spells, sigils, and incantations, practised in other diseases, are seldom pretended in this; and we find no sigil in the Archidoxis of Paracelsus to cure an extreme consumption or marasmus, which, if other diseases fail, will put a period unto long livers, and at last makes dust of all.
Letter to a Friend 2007
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After which, weary, and surprised at having created anything, he drops back into the marasmus of Parisian dissipation; wants become formidable; he has no strength to face them; and then he comes down from his pedestal and compromises.
A Daughter of Eve 2007
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Thus, in consequence of having followed imprudent advice, our amiable Louise was led to the terrible condition of marasmus, and sank when scarcely eighteen years old, to sleep forever.
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Art continues to be “in the marasmus,” as M. Prudhomme says, and there is no longer any place in this world for people with taste.
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As a result of what he named “hospitalism,” Spitz described the development of a condition called “marasmus,” in which children became depressed and withdrawn, failed to thrive and develop, and in many instances became sickly and died.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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Severe undernourishment, also known as marasmus.
The Lost Children of Tuam Dan Barry 2021
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