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▸ noun: (medicine) A condition of chronic undernourishment especially in children, caused by a diet deficient in calories or the inability to digest protein and presenting as a severe loss of body weight.
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▸ noun: (medicine) A condition of chronic undernourishment especially in children, caused by a diet deficient in calories or the inability to digest protein and presenting as a severe loss of body weight.
Similar:
malnutrition,
marasmus senilis,
malnourishment,
misnutrition,
wasting disease,
subnutrition,
undernutrition,
malacia,
stunting,
dynapenia,
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general,
nutritional,
senile,
severe,
infantile,
extreme,
enzootic,
progressive,
syphilitic,
complete,
adult
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