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MARASMUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does marasmus mean?
• MARASMUS (noun)
The noun MARASMUS has 1 sense:
1. extreme malnutrition and emaciation (especially in children); can result from inadequate intake of food or from malabsorption or metabolic disorders
Familiarity information: MARASMUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extreme malnutrition and emaciation (especially in children); can result from inadequate intake of food or from malabsorption or metabolic disorders
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("marasmus" is a kind of...):
malnutrition (a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods)
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