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marasmus [mə′raz·məs] (medicine) Chronic severe wasting of the tissues of the body, particularly in children, due to malnutrition. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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An autopsy concluded that pneumonia and marasmus, progressive emaciation caused by a lack of food, were the causes of Lindsay's death. At the New York Infant Asylum, opened in 1865, employees fed babies artificial food with such "disastrous results" that, although the Asylum had cribs for 150, babies occupied no more than twenty-five or thirty beds at a time because the "deaths from innutrition, diarrhea, and marasmus were equal in number to the admissions . Uncounted numbers of these warehoused children died of marasmus, a wasting disease that also struck many upper-middle-class infants whose mothers had been advised not to spoil their children by picking them up too often. |
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