emaciation

🇺🇸 /ɪˌmeɪsiˈeɪʃn/ 🇬🇧 /ɪˌmeɪsiˈeɪʃn/
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A person being very thin and weak, often due to sickness or not having enough food.

After being sick for so long, she showed signs of emaciation.

translation

n. A person being very thin and weak, often due to sickness or not having enough food.

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Plural emaciations