Examples of wasting disease

• Marasmus is a wasting disease, found especially among children as a result of defective feeding.

• Philitas was thin and frail, and may have suffered and died from a wasting disease.

• It seems to us that he is like a doctor trying to cure a wasting disease such as tuberculosis with a bottle of tonic.

• The whole picture of the machine tool industry is one of an industry suffering from a wasting disease.

• Better the surgical operation now than a long and wasting disease.

• For example, what is "a severe and progress neurological and muscle wasting disease"?

• It is a wasting disease which affects the involuntary muscles, breathing, and so on.

• What a remedy for the wasting disease which beset us then!

• There is a wasting disease from which all citizens of this country are suffering, so that they get less and less for their money.

• I have a constituent whose joints were damaged by a wasting disease, and who has to have replacement joints.

• One of the children died of phthisis, one died of tubercular meningitis, and one of wasting disease.

• She described how her father was suffering from a wasting disease, a terminal complaint.

• It is more like a wasting disease that affects the guts and the muscles of the body of this great conurbation.

• Great meadows of sea grass —the only flowering plant able to survive underwater—continue to suffer from wasting disease, possibly related to pollution.

• Indeed, what has happened with redundancies is very much like putting a man suffering from a wasting disease on a starvation diet.