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Atrophy :: Atrophy (n.) A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.

Degradation :: Degradation (n.) A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc..

Pining :: Pining (a.) Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing..

Tabescent :: Tabescent (a.) Withering, or wasting away..

Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole..

Tabefaction :: Tabefaction (n.) A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease.

Tabifical :: Tabifical (a.) Producing tabes; wasting; tabefying.

Marasmus :: Marasmus (n.) A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis.

Marcor :: Marcor (n.) A wasting away of flesh; decay.

Wasting :: Wasting (a.) Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune..

Consumption :: Consumption (n.) A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption..

Absumption :: Absumption (n.) Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction.

Contabescent :: Contabescent (a.) Wasting away gradually.

Consumptive :: Consumptive (a.) Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting..

Volatile :: Volatile (a.) Capable of wasting away, or of easily passing into the aeriform state; subject to evaporation..

Leprosy :: Leprosy (n.) A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease, anaesthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints. It is

Waste :: Waste (v.) The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc..

Wasting :: Wasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wast.

Misspense :: misspense (n.) A spending improperly; a wasting.

Phthisical :: Phthisical (a.) Of or pertaining to phthisis; affected with phthisis; wasting; consumptive.

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