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Marasmus :: Marasmus (n.) A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis.

Wasting :: Wasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wast.

Phthisical :: Phthisical (a.) Of or pertaining to phthisis; affected with phthisis; wasting; consumptive.

Phthisis :: Phthisis (n.) A wasting or consumption of the tissues. The term was formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis, or consumption. See Consumption..

Waste :: Waste (v.) The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc..

Pining :: Pining (a.) Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing..

Tabescent :: Tabescent (a.) Withering, or wasting away..

Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole..

Marcor :: Marcor (n.) A wasting away of flesh; decay.

Wasting :: Wasting (a.) Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune..

Absumption :: Absumption (n.) Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction.

Volatile :: Volatile (a.) Capable of wasting away, or of easily passing into the aeriform state; subject to evaporation..

Misspense :: misspense (n.) A spending improperly; a wasting.

Consumptive :: Consumptive (a.) Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting..

Consumption :: Consumption (n.) A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption..

Contabescent :: Contabescent (a.) Wasting away gradually.

Degradation :: Degradation (n.) A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc..

Tabifical :: Tabifical (a.) Producing tabes; wasting; tabefying.

Colliquation :: Colliquation (n.) A processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages.

Decline :: Decline (v. i.) A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline..

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