marasmus

• “He had got something which Mrs. Nevill Tyson had never heard of -- "marasmus," the doctor called it.”

  The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson)

• “In rural areas, lack of proper nutrition can lead to common diseases such as marasmus, leading to chronic weight loss, and kwashiorkor, resulting from a lack of protein which leads to dangerous swelling of the feet and legs.”

  The Guardian World News

• “Underprivileged under classes comparisons to Spitzer, Sanford unfettered access to procreative partners kwashiorkor, marasmus & obesity blind following of atavistic evolutionary behavioral impulses unrepentant Trotskyites after victorious fascism as in Goldman Saks Obama nexussteve harQuote”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Books I Would Recommend to those Who Disagree With Me

• “The babies that died earlier this year had apparently suffered from severe malnutrition, kwashiorkor, pneumonia, poor sanitation and marasmus.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “The babies in Ukhahlamba had died from severe malnutrition, kwashiorkor, pneumonia, poor sanitation and marasmus, the Department said.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “+ Amulets, spells, sigils, and incantations, practised in other diseases, are seldom pretended in this; and we find no sigil in the Archidoxis of Paracelsus to cure an extreme consumption or marasmus, which, if other diseases fail, will put a period unto long livers, and at last makes dust of all.”

  Letter to a Friend

• “After which, weary, and surprised at having created anything, he drops back into the marasmus of Parisian dissipation; wants become formidable; he has no strength to face them; and then he comes down from his pedestal and compromises.”

  A Daughter of Eve

• “Thus, in consequence of having followed imprudent advice, our amiable Louise was led to the terrible condition of marasmus, and sank when scarcely eighteen years old, to sleep forever.”

  The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.

• “Art continues to be “in the marasmus,” as M. Prudhomme says, and there is no longer any place in this world for people with taste.”

  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters

• “As a result of what he named “hospitalism,” Spitz described the development of a condition called “marasmus,” in which children became depressed and withdrawn, failed to thrive and develop, and in many instances became sickly and died.”

  Simon & Schuster: Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice

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