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Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
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emaciation
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emaciation \E*ma`ci*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. ['e]maciation.] The act of making very lean. The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
Wikipedia
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Emaciation ( or ) is defined as extreme weight loss and unnatural thinness due to a loss of subcutaneous fat (the fatty, or adipose tissue beneath the skin) and muscle throughout the body. It affects human beings and animals; one that is emaciated could ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) [syn: bonyness , gauntness , maceration ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of making very lean. 2 The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from Latin emaciationem , noun of state from past participle stem of emaciare (see emaciate ), or perhaps a native formation from emaciate .
Usage examples of emaciation.
The arrest of the abnormal breaking down of the tissues, and the prevention of emaciation.
The fever will bring emaciation and asthenia and lassitude, until you have no will to move at all.
All four of them were specimens of that stalwart race that commands so high a price in the African market, and in spite of the emaciation induced by their recent sufferings, their muscular, well-knit frames betokened a strong and healthy constitution.
Now Brad could clearly see that the in sectile limbs of the body were severely attenuated human arms and legs, that the sunken body cavity and strangely shriveled genitals were the products of acute emaciation, that the fright-mask face was the result of dehydration without decay.
For if some one, famishing for want and pressed with hunger, use human flesh as food,-an extremity not unknown, as both ancient history and the unhappy experience of our own days have taught us,-can it be contended, with any show of reason, that all the flesh eaten has been evacuated, and that none of it has been assimilated to the substance of the eater though the very emaciation which existed before, and has now disappeared, sufficiently indicates what large deficiencies have been filled up with this food?
Both were tall and peculiarly thin - not the thinness of emaciation, but that of bodily structure.
Astrid tried to half lead, half carry him away, but though his emaciation had reached a degree where he could scarcely be any heavier than the girl, if at all, his uncontrollable lurching made her stagger across the pavement.
A Chinese of extreme emaciation came into the room: he seemed to take up no room at all: he was like the piece of grease-proof paper* that divides the biscuits in a tin.
This was all they had to look forward to: captivity, emaciation, skeletonization, and finally disappearance.
His thinness wasn't Bird's emaciation, born of a stringtown diet and bad nerves.
We read of loss of appetite, emaciation, want of the vital spark, habituation, and even a most degrading slavery.