malnourished
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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
Vaughan was evacuated from Gaza last month, bidding goodbye to colleagues and patients who were so malnourished their bones jutted from their skin like tent poles.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2025
You had to open the leaflet to do so—and on the inside you learn that one of the malnourished children the charity seeks to help could pass a whole arm though a hole that size.*
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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