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!
