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Marasmus   Listen
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marasmus  n.  (Med.) A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis. "Pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence."
Marasmus senilis, progressive atrophy of the aged.






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"Marasmus" Quotes from Famous Books



... maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies and ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley

... exceptionally observed in the first weeks of life (dermatitis exfoliativa neonatorum), lasting some weeks, and in most cases followed by recovery. There are no special constitutional symptoms, the fatal cases usually dying of marasmus. ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon

... retrogradation, diminution, retrogression, degeneracy, declension, declination, decay; progressive emaciation, marasmus. Antonyms: progress, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming



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