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marasmic kwashiorkor

A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition | 2005 | | © A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition 2005, originally published by Oxford University Press 2005. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

marasmic kwashiorkor The most severe form of protein-energy malnutrition in children, with weight for height less than 60% of that expected, and with oedema and other symptoms of kwashiorkor.

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