Often seen in undernourished children

Usage examples of noma.

As it chanced, a rich man of a neighbouring tribe had lost some cattle, and came with gifts to Noma praying him to smell them out.

I would drive them straight to the kraal, and denounce Noma before the chief, my father, and all the people.

I went to the corner of my hut, Noma watching me all the while, and took a kerrie and my small shield.

Now the daylight came quickly, and the sun had been up an hour when I reached the spot where I must turn if I wished to hide the cattle in the secret place, as Noma had bid me.

No, I would go on to the kraal with them, and tell all men that Noma was a thief.

There, over the slope of the rise, came a crowd of men, and leading them was Noma, and by his side the headman who owned the cattle.

My hut, I thought, would be empty, for nobody sleeps there except myself, and the huts of Noma were some paces away to the right.

I was frightened, for Noma dead and in the dark was worse than Noma alive.

After this not another word was spoken, and Noma, who is an industrious housewife, boiled some millet into a mash for a mid-day lunch.

Never before witnessed by twentieth-century doctors, noma also appeared and was recognized only from the descriptions in old textbooks: it is the complication of malnutrition which eats holes in the cheeks until you can see right through to the teeth.

Feeling distracted and irritated by the forced camaraderie of the recovery room, nomas retreated to the surgical lounge.

The fierce and sentimental music and the ignorant colors, the prettiness and the disease under the fake-gold light, the tuberculosis and syphilis, the fires showing through the branches like illuminated brains, the glamorous nomas of eye and mouth, the childishness and all the valueless trash.

His noma- dic people dwelt on the steppe west of the Khamorth, and he carried a plainsman's short, hom-reinforced bow.