Usually means: Severe malnutrition in elderly individuals.
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▸ noun:  (dated) progressive atrophy of the aged

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marasmus, wasting palsy, senilism, pseudoatrophy, osteosarcopenia, sarcopaenia, encephalatrophy, amyotrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, dynapenia, more...

Opposite:
presbyphagia, geriatric obesity, sarcopenia, cachexia

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marasmus, wasting palsy, senilism, pseudoatrophy, osteosarcopenia, sarcopaenia, encephalatrophy, amyotrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, dynapenia, more...

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presbyphagia, geriatric obesity, sarcopenia, cachexia



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