(1) Clinical impression of wasting of musculature of the limbs, but not severe enough to describe the child as suffering from marasmus was classified as emaciation.(2) HIV infection predisposes children to develop severe malnutrition, although this is more commonly manifest as marasmus than kwashiorkor.(3) Prevalence of clinical protein energy malnutrition in the form of marasmus was found in 6 children, while Kwashiorkor was not recorded.(4) Patients with marasmus present with severe weight loss and wasting of both muscle and adipose tissue.(5) Cases of marasmus , which causes children to waste away, increased more than 50-fold.(6) The young woman was clearly visible from the consulting room window, her emaciated frame draped in the tattered remnants of a sari, with a marasmic toddler balanced on her hip.(7) Most patients continued to lose weight, and marasmic malnutrition continued despite the provision of adequate calories and protein through the feeding tube.(8) The child is apathetic and does not cry often, unlike the anxious marasmic child.
