EMACIATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emaciation mean? 

• EMACIATION (noun)
  The noun EMACIATION has 1 sense:

1. extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)

  Familiarity information: EMACIATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMACIATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

boniness; bonyness; emaciation; gauntness; maceration

Hypernyms ("emaciation" is a kind of...):

leanness; spareness; thinness (the property of having little body fat)

Derivation:

emaciate (grow weak and thin or waste away physically)

emaciate (cause to grow thin or weak)

 Context examples 

Yet this emaciation seemed to be his natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his step brisk, and his bearing assured.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is commonly characterized by fever, chills, vomiting, anemia, hepatosplenomegaly, leukopenia, hypergammaglobulinemia, emaciation, and an earth-gray color of the skin.

(Kala-Azar, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The other, who was secured in a similar fashion, was a tall man in the last stage of emaciation, with several strips of sticking-plaster arranged in a grotesque pattern over his face.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)