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1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes sig. Qiii ^v They [sc. pistachio nuts] be good..to make them fatte..which haue that kinde of consumption that is called Marasmus [L. marasmo].

1622 E. Misselden Free Trade i. 10 Needes must this great Body languish, and at length fall into a Marasmum.

1656 J. Trapp Comm. Job xix. 20 (1657) 171 Now, alas, I lie under a miserable Marasmus.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 29 Diverse having kept them in their beds, have got an hectick feaver or marasmus thereby.

1753 N. Torriano Hist. Diss. Gangrenous Sore Throat 76 How often was I apprehensive, Miss Blossac would fall into a Marasmus or a Languor?

1804 J. Whitehouse To Febris in Poet. Register 92 That hideous choir, Marasmus, Epilepse, and Frenzy dire!

1824 Lancet 18 Dec. 368/1 Marasmus is an abstract term, under which, conditions are involved often discrepant from each other.

1837 S. Smith Let. to Singleton in Wks. (1859) II. 268/2 Everybody has their favourite death: some delight in apoplexy, and others prefer marasmus.

1856 Athenæum 26 Apr. 515 The milk itself has been yielded by stalled cows dying of marasmus.

1902 W. G. Thompson Pract. Dietetics (ed. 2) viii. 564 Marasmus is a form of starvation occurring chiefly in artificially fed infants, but also in those at the breast, in whom there is great wasting of the muscular and other soft tissues.

1920 C. Carswell Open Door! i. v. 82 Joanna sank into a kind of marasmus—a wasting without fever or apparent disease.

1951 R. W. B. Ellis Dis. in Infancy & Childhood vii. 254 Marasmus (Infantile atrophy). This is a condition of extreme and chronic malnutrition, and whilst it often arises simply from underfeeding, it may also be due to a variety of other causes, e.g. congenital syphilis..or parasitic infection. It is not therefore a disease sui generis but a clinical picture.

1968 Meneghello & Rizzardini in A. Dorfman Child Care in Health & Dis. iii. 42 Almost all children in Chile suffer from so-called caloric-protein malnutrition, or marasmus, and this form of malnutrition is the major problem in Chile... The other form, protein malnutrition or kwashiorkor, is the most common type in other countries of the region.

1971 Sci. Amer. Oct. 14/3 They have advanced the understanding of the starvation disease called marasmus, which is increasing in many developing countries because mothers are giving up prolonged breast-feeding and their infants are not receiving an adequate substitute diet during a critical time in development.

1988 G. Palmer Politics of Breastfeeding vii. 191 Nowadays most marasmus and kwashiorkor and the combination of the two are called protein/energy malnutrition (PEM).

1681 H. Neville Plato Redivivus 24 I am one of those Unskilful Persons, that cannot discern a State Marasmus, when the danger is so far off.

1885 J. S. Stallybrass tr. V. Hehn Wanderings Plants & Animals 23 The notion that there is any such thing as a senile marasmus of nature.

1938 S. Beckett Murphy viii. 138 I am half dead with abuse and exposure, I am in a marasmus.

1942 M. Burt Case of Fast Young Lady 272 A lightening glimpse of that fearsome spiritual marasmus which the theologians call corruption.