emaciation

[ih-mey-shee-ey-shuhn, -see-]

noun

1. abnormal thinness caused by lack of nutrition or by disease.

2. the process of emaciating.

Word History and Origins

Origin of emaciation¹

1655–65; < Latin ēmaciāt ( us ) ( emaciate ) + -ion

Example Sentences

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.

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But others may suffer from severe disease marked by extensive hair loss, secondary bacterial infections, emaciation and, eventually, death.

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North Strabane police filed the charges after a necropsy of her dog, Thor, showed the animal died of “severe emaciation” and weighed only 20 pounds, less than half of what its weight should have been.

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The pop musician also responded to a Vulture article that deemed the “Rush” video “a return to body fascism and emaciation.”

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Of the 201, eight people died from emaciation after being rescued, while the rest have been exhumed mostly from mass graves in Shakahola Forest in Kilifi County in the country's southeast.

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