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

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.

From Seattle Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Reuters

Their medical conditions included a boat strike that caused a skull fracture, severe emaciation and gastric issues, dehydration and inflammation.

From Washington Times

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