malnourished

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"I became very malnourished and I got anaemia - Peter said I aged 20 years when I next saw him," she said.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

At Banissa's main hospital, an influx of severely malnourished children -- some arriving from neighbouring Ethiopia -- has overwhelmed the paediatric ward.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

That’s when so much critical development takes place, and children who are malnourished can never make up the loss.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 24, 2025

The boy was fifteen, skinny, almost malnourished, so that the hip bones and coccyx stood out sharply.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

In January 1943, exhausted and malnourished, Vavilov was moved to a prison hospital.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee