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kwashiorkor noun. M20.
[Local name in Ghana.]
A form of malnutrition caused by severe protein and energy deficiency, chiefly affecting young (esp. newly weaned) children in tropical Africa, and producing apathy, oedema, loss of pigmentation, diarrhoea, and other symptoms.