Marasmus
A severe case of malnutrition.
Maternal and child health services
Programs and facilities focused on caring for mothers and children, oftenproviding pre- and post-natal care, infant care, and birth control.
Marasmus: Marasmus is a severe deficiency of calories and protein. It tends to develop in infants and very young children. It typically results in weight loss and dehydration. Breastfeeding usually protects against marasmus.
Marasmus Senilis
Gerontatrophia. Progressive atrophy of the aged. [Dunglison 1874].
Example from an 1848 Münster, Switzerland Church Death Record: ...
Marasmus: Malnutrition caused by lack of Calories causing starvation. These children often have a distended abdomen but not a large liver; wrinkled, loose skin that seems to "hang off them"; loss of all body fat from under the skin; ...
Marasmus: Malnutrition occurring in infants and young children, caused by an insufficient intake of calories or protein.
Marasmus
Starvation occuring in children due to prolonged deficiency of proteins and calories in the diet.
Marrow ...
in phthisis and cancer, in typhus and pneumonia, after parturition and in marasmus at all periods of life, but especially in the very young and very old.
This leads to marasmus. This diet does not have enough protein, fat, carbohydrates, calories and other important nutrients. Children on this diet form the classic picture of malnutrition. They are skin and bones. This is a serious condition.
felj t rav noun same as marasmus faint faint fent verb to stop being conscious for a short time and usually ...
fainting fit
fent ft fainting spell ...
Related malnutrition syndromes are kwashiorkor and marasmus, although these do not always have an underlying causative illness; they are most often symptomatic of severe malnutrition.
Malnutrition (kwashiorkor, protein deficiency or marasmus, total calorie deficiency)
Obesity
Vitamin deficiency (thiamine, B12, B6, folate, vitamin C) ...
cachexia, copper deficiency, familial hypophosphatemia, folate deficiency, hypercalciuria, hypocalcemia, hypophosphatemia, iodine deficiency, iron absorption enhancement, iron deficiency, Korsakoff's psychosis, Kwashiorkor, malnutrition, marasmus, ...
In the most extreme cases, their depressed state led to death from marasmus, a condition in which a child wastes away from starvation.
 See also: Death, Symptom, Nutrition, Cancer, Deficiency
  
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