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kwashiorkor|kwɒʃɪˈɔːkɔː(r)|
[Native name in Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast).]
A wasting disease that is caused by an insufficient intake of protein by the body and chiefly affects young children in tropical countries, producing apathy, oedema of the extremities, desquamation, and partial loss of pigmentation (and is generally associated with diarrhoea and stunted growth), and leading in severe cases to death.
1935C. D. Williams in Lancet 16 Nov. 1151/1 The name ‘kwashiorkor’ indicates the disease the deposed baby gets when the next one is born, and is the local name in the Gold Coast for a nutritional disease of children, associated with a maize diet. 1951G. C. Shattuck Dis. Tropics lvii. 695 The early stage of kwashiorkor is difficult to recognize. Probably there are many mild cases which never develop the typical syndrome. 1954New Biol. XVII. 20 One of the commonest diseases, called Kwashiorkor, is associated with protein deficiency in the diet when young and especially at the stage when breast-feeding ceases and no very suitable foods to replace it are available. 1959Times 2 Dec. 10/5 Another hospital doctor described the incidence of kwashiorkor as ‘needless slaughter’ which could easily be prevented by funds for milk and other proper nourishment. 1968Observer (Colour Suppl.) 29 Dec. 18/3 We saw a fretful baby with the unmistakable signs of early kwashiorkor, the disease of protein starvation that ravages Africa. 1970D. B. Jelliffe Dis. Children Subtropics & Tropics (ed. 2) vii. 172 The ‘sugar baby’ type of child..which conserves his subcutaneous fat, may even be obese and recovers very rapidly on a high-protein diet, is the typical example of kwashiorkor without previous malnutrition. 1971Progress (Cape Town) May 9/1 One of the unit's major achievements was to prove that the cure of kwashiorkor..could be initiated by the administering of a synthetic skimmed milk. |