Definition of Marasmus
1. Noun. Extreme malnutrition and emaciation (especially in children); can result from inadequate intake of food or from malabsorption or metabolic disorders.
Definition of Marasmus
1. n. A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis.
Definition of Marasmus
1. Noun. (medicine) Any wasting disease, especially a severe loss of body weight, in children, caused by malnutrition or the inability to digest protein ¹
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Definition of Marasmus
1. a wasting away of the body [n -ES] : MARASMIC [adj]
Medical Definition of Marasmus
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Literary usage of Marasmus
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1. Obstetrics for nurses by Joseph Bolivar De Lee (1917)
"marasmus.—This term is used to designate those cases of simple but obstinate ...
Pronounced cases of marasmus do not occur as early as the period with which ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"Rabbits and monkeys are very susceptible, whereas dogs .and goals are extraordinarily
immune. THE RELATION OF THE THYMUS GLAND TO marasmus. BY WM. ..."
3. A Manual of General Pathology: For the Use of Students and Practitioners of by Ernst Wagner (1876)
"marasmus AS A RESULT OF DISEASE. A general representation of this marasmus is
impossible ; it is much more necessary, in individual cases, to look for its ..."
4. The Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature edited by Samuel Emlen (1819)
"Practical Observations on the Nature and Treatment of marasmus, and of those
Disorder., allied to it which may be strictly denominated Bilious. ..."
5. Animal Chemistry with Reference to the Physiology and Pathology of Man by Johann Franz Simon (1846)
"... has published an analysis of the urine in a case of marasmus senilis accompanied
with gangrene. It contained in 1000 parts : Water . ..."
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