How To Use Kwashiorkor In A Sentence
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One boy of 22 months developed severe kwashiorkor on a diet of rice milk and erratic solids.
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HIV infection predisposes children to develop severe malnutrition, although this is more commonly manifest as marasmus than kwashiorkor.
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Kwashiorkor is seen most commonly in areas where the staple food is mainly carbohydrate, such as tubers and roots like cassava.
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The West learned a new word, "kwashiorkor," the fatal lack of protein from which thousands of children were dying.
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However, Baganda suffer from malaria, and children are frequently afflicted with kwashiorkor, a form of protein-calorie malnutrition.
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He has kwashiorkor, which has left his limbs bloated and his belly swollen.
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Medication was sent over to treat diseases like goiter, anemia, kwashiorkor, and AIDS, and the people were also educated about their prevention.
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The dumping - grounds have become death camps in which not only cholera and typhoid, but other diseases - gastro - enteritis, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, malaria, as well as diseases of starvation, such as kwashiorkor, marasmus and pellagra - flourish.
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Profound (?) is a common complication of kwashiorkor. B.
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The common diseases in Nigeria are nutritional such as kwashiorkor and marasmus; parasitic like malaria and water borne such as cholera and guinea worm.
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Prevalence of clinical protein energy malnutrition in the form of marasmus was found in 6 children, while Kwashiorkor was not recorded.
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It was assumed to be a traveler's version of the widespread tropical deficiency disease called kwashiorkor, from a Gold Coast term meaning "displaced child.
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Some were garbled articles from various encyclopaedias, about international politics, about online democracy, about computerised supermarket stocktaking, about kwashiorkor and other kinds of malnutrition.
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The term is generally used to designate both increasingly rare forms of severe clinical malnutrition (such as kwashiorkor and marasmus) and the more common forms of growth faltering or growth impairment (often termed mild or moderate malnutrition).
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I notice one young boy's badly swollen feet: they're a sign of a medical condition known as kwashiorkor, or severe protein deficiency.
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Children are more strongly affected by kwashiorkor than adults because they are still growing and their protein requirements are higher.
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Kwashiorkor is seen most commonly in areas where the staple food is mainly carbohydrate, such as tubers and roots like cassava.
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kwashiorkor" describes the malnourishment of a child weaned too early because his or her mother became pregnant again too quickly.
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She had what is called kwashiorkor i.e. severe protein and calorie malnutrition.
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He has kwashiorkor, which has left his limbs bloated and his belly swollen.
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As a result, kwashiorkor, a disease caused by protein deficiency, is common.
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Nutritional diseases such as kwashiorkor are no longer notifiable, and so it is not easy to estimate their scale.
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