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
One significant difference between the two syndromes is that children with marasmus are twice as likely to survive malnutrition as those with kwashiorkor.
From Economist • Nov. 11, 2010
Boyle relates the case of a physician whose wan face betokened a marasmus, and who was induced to try a method not unlike the sympathetic cures.
From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by Cutten, George Barton
