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What is marasmus?

What is marasmus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (medicine) Any wasting disease, especially a severe loss of body weight, in children, caused by malnutrition or the inability to digest protein
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These developments are particularly affecting recent returnees, where cases of marasmus and kwashiorkor are not uncommon.
The rapidity with which emaciation, hydrops, and marasmus occur in severe cases is thus easily accounted for.
Clinical impression of wasting of musculature of the limbs, but not severe enough to describe the child as suffering from marasmus was classified as emaciation.
The bodies of marasmus survivors seemed to demand more protein in their food.
Cases of marasmus, which causes children to waste away, increased more than 50-fold.
Symptoms normally manifest themselves in one of two ways, known as marasmus and kwashiorkor.

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