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Grammar : Noun
Spell : muh-raz-muh s
Phonetic Transcription : məˈræz məs

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Origin :
  • "wasting away of the body," 1650s, Modern Latin, from Greek marasmos "a wasting away, withering, decay," from marainein "to quench, weaken, wither," from PIE root *mer- "to rub away, harm" (see morbid). Maras (n.) evidently in the same sense is attested from mid-15c. Related: Marasmic.
  • As in emaciation : noun gauntness
Example sentences :
  • The nation, as it were, sickened in a marasmus of intellectual inbreeding.
  • Extract from : « The Popular Science Monthly, October, 1900 » by Various
  • Marasmus is a condition in which the ingested food seems to fail to nourish the body and gradual wasting away occurs.
  • Extract from : « Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition » by H. L. Russell
  • Inanition or marasmus is the usual cause of death in uncomplicated cases.
  • Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II » by Various
  • Symptoms of anmia and marasmus, or of chronic exudative peritonitis, or of chronic pleurisy.
  • Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II » by Various
  • As the disease progresses the patient loses flesh and strength, and usually dies in a condition of marasmus.
  • Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II » by Various
  • The stomach may participate with other organs in the general atrophy attending inanition and marasmus.
  • Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II » by Various
  • The rapidity with which emaciation, hydrops, and marasmus occur in severe cases is thus easily accounted for.
  • Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II » by Various
  • One day passed without a call—six days died of marasmus, and never the first patient crossed the threshold of my office.
  • Extract from : « The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in The South-West » by John Robb
  • The defence commonly set up is that the child died either of marasmus or of tuberculosis.
  • Extract from : « Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology » by W. G. Aitchison Robertson
  • Marasmus, ma-raz′mus, n. a wasting of flesh without apparent disease, a kind of consumption.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various
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