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Meanings of emaciation in English

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Extreme weight loss and unnatural thinness due to a loss of subcutaneous fat.

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inanición

Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)

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Examples for "maceration"
Examples for "maceration"
1
We obtained them in enormous abundance in a maceration of fish.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
2
For the production of the huile and pomade they are treated by maceration.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
3
A sinful mortal like thyself; but worn down with long vigils and maceration.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1
4
This fleshly maceration is the symbolic preparation for the conversion he subsequently undergoes.
The Guardian
5
They are treated by maceration and enfleurage, chiefly the latter.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
1
Spider's arms, impossibly strong for their gauntness, cradled her against his chest.
The bone palace
2
His features, always inclined to gauntness, became even sharper and more pronounced.
Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life
3
The gauntness, she knew, was a side effect of cold sleep.
The Sails of Tau Ceti
4
He had lost weight, and his cheekbones stuck out with gauntness.
The viking takes a knight
5
It showed a woman of mournfully beautiful gauntness, jacket draped over her shoulder.
The Guardian
1
The doctor felt the boniness of his own face and hands.
All souls' rising
2
They were an odd couple: Brutish, fat and carnal, Poor, a stick figure-thoughsturdy in her boniness-constantlygrubbing, ever fearful.
Running the books: the adventures of an accidental prison librar...
3
"The food, my lord?" persisted the unlovely boniness that was Marilla Theron.
Watcher of the Dead
4
"You needn't worry over my boniness," she assured him cheerfully.
The Vision of Desire
Usage of emaciation in English
1
His body was thin and fine and tight, with a healthy emaciation.
Perdido Street Station
2
She's thin almost to the point of emaciation, and pale as milk.
End of Watch
3
Even in her waxy whiteness and unnatural emaciation, her face was good.
Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness
4
This man appeared in tolerable health as to body, his emaciation excepted.
American Prisoners of the Revolution
5
Hard to tell, due to his bruises and emaciation under the rags.
Changer of Worlds
6
He looked like nothing more than a starving itinerant, thin unto emaciation.
Assail
7
Otherwise he would have reduced himself to a condition of positive emaciation!
The Story of the Herschels, a Family of Astronomers / Sir Willia...
8
Appetite and general conditions are usually normal; sometimes there are feebleness and emaciation.
Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
9
It is worth noting that actorly emaciation is a particularly male performance stunt.
BBC
10
My emaciation and sickness increase, as do my love and passion.
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights. Vol. 1
11
The material seemed to be draped on her tall figure, thin to emaciation.
The Foolish Virgin
12
But the truly frightening thing was the emaciation of his body.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
13
An 8-year-old male Japanese domestic cat presented with anorexia and emaciation.
Pubmed
14
Death due to bilateral ptthisis with tuberculosis of intestines and mesenteric glands, emaciation.
The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10
15
On the other hand, he continued to endure waste and emaciation.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
16
I glanced at his face, and saw that it was thin to emaciation.
The Strand Magazine: Vol. 07, Issue 37, January, 1894. / An Illu...
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