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Meanings of wasting disease in English
Portuguese
tuberculose Catalan
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Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body.
Usage of wasting disease in English
1
The wasting disease made its appearance, and the pale form bowed beneath it.
2
The human version of the brain- wasting disease, called Creutzfeldt-Jakob, can 50 years to gestate.
3
He has used a wheelchair since Friedreich's ataxia, a muscle- wasting disease, made walking impossible.
4
He looked like the terminal stages of some wasting disease.
5
Alex looked at Acastus and said, almost reverently, He's dying of a wasting disease.
6
Following the split, Smith suffered from a mysterious wasting disease, which caused alarming weight loss.
7
Excess urine had been associated with a wasting disease.
8
Rickets, or wasting disease (marasmus) and poor hygienic surroundings makes the outlook less favorable.
9
In exhausting or wasting disease, the weight of the gland sinks much more quickly than other glands.
10
Still, the results helped bolster earlier positive results showing the drug helps patients with the brain- wasting disease.
11
Ruth had been dead a bit more than a year, the victim of some mysterious wasting disease.
12
Raban suffered from asthma and the wasting disease known as coeliac, which restricted him in the playground.
13
Muscular dystrophy is a progressive, lethal wasting disease characterized by repetitive cycles of myofiber degeneration and regeneration.
14
The wasting disease had firm hold upon him; day by day it consumed his flesh, darkened his mind.
15
These killers, now, all local, were themselves victims of this wasting disease, with milky eyes and withered limbs.
16
Her son, who has a muscle wasting disease, was limping up a muddy path on crutches on Monday.
This collocation consists of:
Wasting disease across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common