Emaciation
11emaciation — noun a) The act of making very lean. b) The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition. See Also: emaciate …
12emaciation — Becoming abnormally thin from extreme loss of flesh. SYN: wasting (1). [L. e macio, pp. atus, to make thin] * * * ema·ci·a·tion i .mā s(h)ē ā shən n 1) the process of making or becoming emaciated 2) the state of being emaciated esp a wasted… …
13emaciation — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. gauntness, skinniness, thinness, boniness, haggardness, anorexia, malnutrition, starvation, undernourishment, atrophy, wasting, wasting away, withering, attenuation, consumption, marasmus, tabes …
14emaciation — e·ma·ci·a·tion || ɪ‚meɪsɪ eɪʃn n. leanness, thinness, wasting away of the flesh …
15emaciation — n. Leanness, lankness, meagreness, wasting away, pining away, tabes, tabefaction …
16emaciation — n 1. gauntness, haggardness, witheredness, shrunkenness, boniness; scrawniness, scragginess, spareness, skinniness, thinness, leanness, lankness, lankiness, slimness, slenderness, attenuation, tenuity; Psychiatry. anorexia. 2. atrophy, atrophia,… …
17emaciation — ema·ci·a·tion …
18emaciation — n. wasting of the body, caused by such conditions as malnutrition, tuberculosis, cancer, or parasitic worms …
19emaciation — See: emaciated …
20emaciation — /əmeɪsiˈeɪʃən/ (say uhmaysee ayshuhn), /i / (say ee ) noun abnormal thinness, caused by lack of nutrition or by disease …
