Marasmus is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MARASMUS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a wasting away of the body
• A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis.
• extreme malnutrition and emaciation (especially in children); can result from inadequate intake of food or from malabsorption or metabolic disorders
• emaciation
• undernourishment causing a child's weight to be significantly low for their age.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• general emaciation and wasting, esp of infants, thought to be associated with severe malnutrition or impaired utilization of nutrients

Words related to MARASMUS

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Words that contain MARASMUS

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How to use MARASMUS in a sentence

• The defence commonly set up is that the child died either of marasmus or of tuberculosis.
• The infantile diseases, infantile and remittent fevers, convulsions, diarrhoea, croup, marasmus, dysentery, would, I calculate, be almost unknown.

Similar words containing MARASMU without suffix s

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