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Marasmus(health)
marasmus(dictionary)
nutritional marasmus(medicine)

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marasmus noun. M17.
[mod. Latin from Greek marasmos, from marainein waste away.]
Severe loss of weight in a person, esp. an undernourished child; Medicine the condition in a child of having a weight less than 60 per cent of the normal for his or her age.