kwashiorkor
/ˌkwɒʃɪˈɔːkɔː
/ /ˌkwaʃɪˈɔːkɔː/noun [mass noun]
A form of malnutrition caused by protein deficiency in the diet, typically affecting young children in the tropics.One boy of 22 months developed severe kwashiorkor on a diet of rice milk and erratic solids....
- As a result, kwashiorkor, a disease caused by protein deficiency, is common.
- Children are more strongly affected by kwashiorkor than adults because they are still growing and their protein requirements are higher.
Origin
1930s: a local word in Ghana.
- by marriage
- by means of
- by mistake
- by myself
- by name
- byname
- by no manner of means
- by no means
- by no (or not by any) stretch of the imagination
- by numbers
- BYO
- BYOB
- BYOD
- BYOG
- by oneself
- by one's fingertips
- by (or at) someone's side
- by order
- by (or from) all accounts
- by (or in) leaps and bounds
- by (or in) virtue of
- by (or of) the name of
- by (or on) one's lonesome
- by (or on) request
- by (or through) the back door