emaciation
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Origin of emaciation
Example Sentences
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On Friday, the director of one field hospital said in a statement that they had an unprecedented influx of patients suffering from severe exhaustion, emaciation and acute malnutrition.
From BBC • Jul. 19, 2025
The two bodies he was embalming were opposites: one small and bony, almost to the point of emaciation, the other large, the legs and feet swelling with edemas.
From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2022
An Egyptian physician named Hesy-Ra wrote about a mysterious disease that included frequent urination, and caused emaciation.
From Salon • Mar. 12, 2022
Roughly the same age as the singer and unafraid of looking ravaged as well as thin to the point of emaciation, Zellweger gives a deep dive of a performance that is ferociously all in.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2019
He’d lost much of his hair since turning fifty, and his belly, always undernourished in appearance, now suggested a shriveled emaciation.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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