How To Use Kwashiorkor In A Sentence
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It was assumed to be a traveler's version of the widespread tropical deficiency disease called kwashiorkor, from a Gold Coast term meaning "displaced child.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1
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Nutritional diseases such as kwashiorkor are no longer notifiable, and so it is not easy to estimate their scale.
Triumphs' Part 2 - Health, Welfare and the Family
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As a result, kwashiorkor, a disease caused by protein deficiency, is common.
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He has kwashiorkor, which has left his limbs bloated and his belly swollen.
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She had what is called kwashiorkor i.e. severe protein and calorie malnutrition.
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kwashiorkor" describes the malnourishment of a child weaned too early because his or her mother became pregnant again too quickly.
Chapter 19
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Kwashiorkor is seen most commonly in areas where the staple food is mainly carbohydrate, such as tubers and roots like cassava.
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Children are more strongly affected by kwashiorkor than adults because they are still growing and their protein requirements are higher.
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I notice one young boy's badly swollen feet: they're a sign of a medical condition known as kwashiorkor, or severe protein deficiency.
Jeffrey Sachs's $200 Billion Dream
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The term is generally used to designate both increasingly rare forms of severe clinical malnutrition (such as kwashiorkor and marasmus) and the more common forms of growth faltering or growth impairment (often termed mild or moderate malnutrition).
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Some were garbled articles from various encyclopaedias, about international politics, about online democracy, about computerised supermarket stocktaking, about kwashiorkor and other kinds of malnutrition.
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One boy of 22 months developed severe kwashiorkor on a diet of rice milk and erratic solids.
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Prevalence of clinical protein energy malnutrition in the form of marasmus was found in 6 children, while Kwashiorkor was not recorded.
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The common diseases in Nigeria are nutritional such as kwashiorkor and marasmus; parasitic like malaria and water borne such as cholera and guinea worm.
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Profound (?) is a common complication of kwashiorkor. B.
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The dumping - grounds have become death camps in which not only cholera and typhoid, but other diseases - gastro - enteritis, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, malaria, as well as diseases of starvation, such as kwashiorkor, marasmus and pellagra - flourish.
Triumphs' Part 2 - Health, Welfare and the Family
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Medication was sent over to treat diseases like goiter, anemia, kwashiorkor, and AIDS, and the people were also educated about their prevention.
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He has kwashiorkor, which has left his limbs bloated and his belly swollen.
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However, Baganda suffer from malaria, and children are frequently afflicted with kwashiorkor, a form of protein-calorie malnutrition.
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The West learned a new word, "kwashiorkor," the fatal lack of protein from which thousands of children were dying.
1968 the Year that Rocked the World
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Kwashiorkor is seen most commonly in areas where the staple food is mainly carbohydrate, such as tubers and roots like cassava.
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HIV infection predisposes children to develop severe malnutrition, although this is more commonly manifest as marasmus than kwashiorkor.
