marasmus
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The coroner blamed her death on a form of malnutrition called marasmus.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2023
The daughter of Horatio Nelson Cook and Edith Scooffy Cook, she died of marasmus — a form of severe undernourishment — on Oct.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2017
They found that those who had survived marasmus ate differently from those who had survived kwashiorkor.
From Economist ● Nov. 11, 2010
An inability to do that is the price paid for protection from famine by those predisposed to marasmus.
From Economist ● Nov. 11, 2010
He vomited material, sometimes alimentary, sometimes mucus, pus, or blood, and went into the last stage of marasmus.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
