英语词汇“marasmus”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

marasmus

/məˈrazməs

noun [mass noun] Medicine

Undernourishment causing a child’s weight to be significantly low for their age.Clinical impression of wasting of musculature of the limbs, but not severe enough to describe the child as suffering from marasmus was classified as emaciation....

Patients with marasmus present with severe weight loss and wasting of both muscle and adipose tissue.
Prevalence of clinical protein energy malnutrition in the form of marasmus was found in 6 children, while Kwashiorkor was not recorded.

Derivatives

marasmic

/məˈrazmɪk

/ adjective ...

Most patients continued to lose weight, and marasmic malnutrition continued despite the provision of adequate calories and protein through the feeding tube.
The young woman was clearly visible from the consulting room window, her emaciated frame draped in the tattered remnants of a sari, with a marasmic toddler balanced on her hip.
The child is apathetic and does not cry often, unlike the anxious marasmic child.

Origin

Mid 17th century: modern Latin, from Greek marasmos 'withering', from marainein 'wither'.

单词	marasmus
释义	marasmus /məˈrazməs / noun [mass noun] Medicine Undernourishment causing a child’s weight to be significantly low for their age.Clinical impression of wasting of musculature of the limbs, but not severe enough to describe the child as suffering from marasmus was classified as emaciation.... Patients with marasmus present with severe weight loss and wasting of both muscle and adipose tissue. Prevalence of clinical protein energy malnutrition in the form of marasmus was found in 6 children, while Kwashiorkor was not recorded. Derivatives marasmic /məˈrazmɪk / adjective ... Most patients continued to lose weight, and marasmic malnutrition continued despite the provision of adequate calories and protein through the feeding tube. The young woman was clearly visible from the consulting room window, her emaciated frame draped in the tattered remnants of a sari, with a marasmic toddler balanced on her hip. The child is apathetic and does not cry often, unlike the anxious marasmic child. Origin Mid 17th century: modern Latin, from Greek marasmos 'withering', from marainein 'wither'.
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