(v. i.) To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
(v. t.) To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.
(a.) Emaciated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Across a dusty lot sits a heap of scrap metal, patrolled by a couple of emaciated dogs, while a toddler squats in the street, examining the sole of a discarded shoe.
(2) On a snowless but chilly afternoon early in the Moscow winter, a 29-year-old man with a gaunt, emaciated face stepped on to the vast expanse of Red Square.
(3) The mother and stepfather of a four-year-old boy who was battered to death after being subjected to a six-month regime of starvation and physical torture will be jailed for life on Friday after being found guilty of murdering the boy, whose body was so emaciated that one experienced health worker compared it to that of a concentration camp victim.
(4) A 3 year old girl was admitted to hospital in an emaciated condition and with polydipsia in October 1974.
(5) A statistically significant difference was noticed in emaciated persons.
(6) The tissues of many of the test animals, especially from the Saudi Arabian and Nigerian oil-treated ponds, were clear, watery, and emaciated in appearance, which was not the normal condition of oysters from the Gulf during the period of the samplings.
(7) Lesions at the junctions of the gizzard and proventriculus were associated with the nematodes, and resulted in debilitation, emaciation and death.
(8) The man who devised these torments has a passing resemblance to El Greco's emaciated saints.
(9) All the infected heifers developed clinical trypanosomiasis manifested by massive parasitaemia, fluctuating pyrexia, anaemia, dull hair coat, emaciation, jugular pulse and enlarged superficial lymph nodes.
(10) Clinical signs in the live geese were weakness, lethargy, anorexia, emaciation and bile stained diarrhea.
(11) However such symptoms as loss of appetite, nausea and extreme emaciation were observed and caused death.
(12) With the index, we were able to compare the distribution and prevalence of emaciation between the population of nomadic herdsmen of the Adrar of Iforas and the population of sedentary agriculturalists of the Region of Gao in Mali.
(13) When deaths and symptoms of chronic emaciation not due to any apparent cause occurred in weaned lambs, the morphological changes observed suggested that the liver probably was the main organ, the function of which was impaired.
(14) In his most famous self-image , as he sits, ill and emaciated, holding a cane with a carved skull, he is doing more than acknowledge mortality: he is claiming to be the new King Death, inheriting the title Andy Warhol whose fragile head he portrayed with a transcendental clarity, in a portrait so real you feel you could reach into it and hold it, stroke the silver wig.
(15) The patient's chief complaint had been lumbago and emaciation, and a tumor in her left upper abdomen was found.
(16) The disorder is found to have the same basic characteristics in the male as in the female: namely, a phobic avoidance of normal weight associated with elective carbohydrate starvation and emaciation.
(17) Using univariate analysis, it was found that managerial position and long PPH (more than 11 h) were significantly related to CCE (relative risk of 3.0 and 2.2, respectively) as well as risk factors such as emaciation, left ventricular hypertrophy, excessive sleeping hours, obesity, cigarette smoking, and inadequate control of systolic blood pressure.
(18) These data suggest that cortisol production is excessive in emaciated patients with anorexia nervosa due to a disturbance of the hypothalamic-pituitary mechanisms regulating adrenocortical function.
(19) The pre-patent period was approximately 7 weeks and from that time onwards, the animals became progressively ill and emaciated.
(20) At terminal necropsy, diminution of body fat and atrophy of the spleen and thymus that correlated with emaciation were noted in the MPM-50,000 group.
Emaciation
Definition:
(n.) The act of making very lean.
(n.) The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Across a dusty lot sits a heap of scrap metal, patrolled by a couple of emaciated dogs, while a toddler squats in the street, examining the sole of a discarded shoe.
(2) On a snowless but chilly afternoon early in the Moscow winter, a 29-year-old man with a gaunt, emaciated face stepped on to the vast expanse of Red Square.
(3) The mother and stepfather of a four-year-old boy who was battered to death after being subjected to a six-month regime of starvation and physical torture will be jailed for life on Friday after being found guilty of murdering the boy, whose body was so emaciated that one experienced health worker compared it to that of a concentration camp victim.
(4) A 3 year old girl was admitted to hospital in an emaciated condition and with polydipsia in October 1974.
(5) A statistically significant difference was noticed in emaciated persons.
(6) The tissues of many of the test animals, especially from the Saudi Arabian and Nigerian oil-treated ponds, were clear, watery, and emaciated in appearance, which was not the normal condition of oysters from the Gulf during the period of the samplings.
(7) Lesions at the junctions of the gizzard and proventriculus were associated with the nematodes, and resulted in debilitation, emaciation and death.
(8) The man who devised these torments has a passing resemblance to El Greco's emaciated saints.
(9) All the infected heifers developed clinical trypanosomiasis manifested by massive parasitaemia, fluctuating pyrexia, anaemia, dull hair coat, emaciation, jugular pulse and enlarged superficial lymph nodes.
(10) Clinical signs in the live geese were weakness, lethargy, anorexia, emaciation and bile stained diarrhea.
(11) However such symptoms as loss of appetite, nausea and extreme emaciation were observed and caused death.
(12) With the index, we were able to compare the distribution and prevalence of emaciation between the population of nomadic herdsmen of the Adrar of Iforas and the population of sedentary agriculturalists of the Region of Gao in Mali.
(13) When deaths and symptoms of chronic emaciation not due to any apparent cause occurred in weaned lambs, the morphological changes observed suggested that the liver probably was the main organ, the function of which was impaired.
(14) In his most famous self-image , as he sits, ill and emaciated, holding a cane with a carved skull, he is doing more than acknowledge mortality: he is claiming to be the new King Death, inheriting the title Andy Warhol whose fragile head he portrayed with a transcendental clarity, in a portrait so real you feel you could reach into it and hold it, stroke the silver wig.
(15) The patient's chief complaint had been lumbago and emaciation, and a tumor in her left upper abdomen was found.
(16) The disorder is found to have the same basic characteristics in the male as in the female: namely, a phobic avoidance of normal weight associated with elective carbohydrate starvation and emaciation.
(17) Using univariate analysis, it was found that managerial position and long PPH (more than 11 h) were significantly related to CCE (relative risk of 3.0 and 2.2, respectively) as well as risk factors such as emaciation, left ventricular hypertrophy, excessive sleeping hours, obesity, cigarette smoking, and inadequate control of systolic blood pressure.
(18) These data suggest that cortisol production is excessive in emaciated patients with anorexia nervosa due to a disturbance of the hypothalamic-pituitary mechanisms regulating adrenocortical function.
(19) The pre-patent period was approximately 7 weeks and from that time onwards, the animals became progressively ill and emaciated.
(20) At terminal necropsy, diminution of body fat and atrophy of the spleen and thymus that correlated with emaciation were noted in the MPM-50,000 group.