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emaciation

[ UK /iːmˈe‍ɪsɪˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)

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  • Internal causes, such as catarrhal diseases of the stomach and weakness and emaciation from disease, may act as direct or predisposing causes. Common Diseases of Farm Animals
  • The bodies of Tyrant Swellfoot and his subjects schematize the play's oppositions between empowerment and disempowerment, or possession and lack, and the play's registration of political relationships at the site of the bodya recurring trope throughout Shelley's worksfinds form in the oppositional pair of erection/emaciation. Shelley
  • As we sat at a Paris café table, the most striking passing figure was an old woman - thin to the point of emaciation.
  • _The symptoms_ are of a general character, such as emaciation, weakness, wasting of muscles and lameness. Common Diseases of Farm Animals
  • [N] o medicines produced any effect, and he sank into a state of nervelessness and emaciation shocking to witness. The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
  • Indeed, emaciation hath wasted my frame and my tears a torrent became mountains and plains are straitened upon me for grame and of the excess of my distress, I go saying, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • After being weaned for about 1 week, the swinery showed progressive emaciation, slow growth, declining food intake, irregular hair coat and poor spirit.
  • These patients all had other risk factors which included emaciation, starvation because they hadn't been fed, infection, cardiac failure, renal failure," said Marks. 'Angel of Death' Colin Norris could be cleared of insulin murders
  • She said that there was no scientific basis for using the scores to measure emaciation, suffering, starvation or underfeeding. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the combined influence of the alcohol in retarding the internal distribution of oxygen and the drain upon the nutritive elements of her blood, in furnishing milk for her baby, led to rapid impoverishment of the blood and tissues, and the early establishment of a sufficient grade of gastritis to cause indigestion, frequent vomiting, and, later, paroxysms of severe gastralgia, with general emaciation, and loss of strength. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
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