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Infant's malnutrition
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marasmus
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"wasting away of the body," 1650s, Modern Latin, from Greek marasmos "a wasting away, withering, decay," from marainein "to quench, weaken, wither," from PIE root *mer- "to rub away, harm" (see morbid ). Maras (n.) evidently in the same sense is attested ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) Any wasting disease, especially a severe loss of body weight, in children, caused by malnutrition or the inability to digest protein
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Marasmus is a form of severe malnutrition characterized by energy deficiency. A child with marasmus looks emaciated . Body weight is reduced to less than 60% of the normal (expected) body weight for the age. Marasmus occurrence increases prior to age 1, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. extreme malnutrition and emaciation (especially in children); can result from inadequate intake of food or from malabsorption or metabolic disorders
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
marasmus \ma*ras"mus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ?, to quench, as fire; pass., to die away.] (Med.) A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis. Pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence. --Milton. ...
Usage examples of marasmus.
Numbers of all diseased--all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.
Physical death from a condition known as marasmus once was a frequent occurrence in foundling homes where there was a deprivation of this early stroking.
Intestine stone and ulcer, colic-pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence.
Having regard to which train of symptoms it is fair to suppose the acorn will afford in the human subject a useful specific medicine for the marasmus, or wasting atrophy of young children who are scrofulous.
The defence commonly set up is that the child died either of marasmus or of tuberculosis.
Official literature during those years was in a state of total marasmus, total decay, supercretinism .
Bricheteau, quoted by the same authority, speaks of a woman of twenty-four, having white skin and hair of deep black, who after a long illness occasioned by an affection analogous to marasmus became covered, especially on the back, breast, and abdomen, with a multitude of small elevations similar to those which appear on exposure to cold.
About 50 per cent die of marasmus and loss of heat, with or without diarrhea.
Numbers of all diseased--all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.