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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] , fr. [GREEK], to quench, as fire; pass., to die away.]

(Med.)

A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis.

Pining atrophy,

Marasmus

, and wide-wasting pestilence.

Milton.

Marasmus senilis

[L.]

progressive atrophy of the aged.

Noun.

[Gr. to cause to pine or waste away.]

Atrophy; a wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption.

marasmus ‎(uncountable)

(medicine) Any wasting disease, especially a severe loss of body weight, in children, caused by malnutrition or the inability to digest protein

wasting disease