Gabriel examined the child, noting its extreme emaciation and the spots that scrofula had spread over its straw-coloured skin.
On the pillar dividing the doorway stood Jesus in kingly crown and mantle, thin and drawn out, with the look of emaciation and misery that the imagination of the Middle Ages conceived necessary for the expression of Divine sublimity.
In much her case was wonderfully like mine, but I am reduced to greater weakness; the skeleton emaciation is the same.
The fever is not so high as it was, but the pain in the side, the cough, the emaciation are there still.
He had paled to the diaphanous whiteness of the Catholic ascetic; his hand shook upon his stick; the folds of the cloak barely concealed the emaciation of his body.
Distress--mortal fatigue--breathed from the haggard emaciationof face and limbs.
Sidenote: Effects of emaciation] Emaciation is usually followed by general anemia and a weakening of nearly all the functions of the body.
Sidenote: Diet for extreme constipation in emaciated cases] There is another condition of chronic emaciation which, in the beginning, should sometimes be treated in exactly the opposite way.
The fatty degeneration so much admired in infancy, aids in the production of emaciation and consumption at adult age.
Quiet but alert, he marked her attitude, marked also the emaciation which was so painfully apparent in the strong sunshine and formed so piteous a contrast to the vivid youth of the girl beside her.
In spite of his exaggerated stoop, and the emaciation that was so striking from his height, his movements were as rapid and abrupt as ever.
Terrible as his brother Nikolay had been before in his emaciation and sickliness, now he looked still more emaciated, still more wasted.
The bright sun, the brilliant green of the foliage, the strains of the music were for her the natural setting of all these familiar faces, with their changes to greater emaciation or to convalescence, for which she watched.
After some days the disease resumed its sway, the bodily forces diminished, the emaciation made great progress, and local and general signs indicated rapid consumption.
Growth may be as rapid when the bearer is in a condition of extreme emaciation as it is when the bearer is well nourished and robust.
A condition of malnutrition and emaciation often results due to the passage into the blood of injurious substances formed in the tumor, or to the destruction of important organs by the growing tumor.
An animal affected with abscess of the lung usually has a protracted, feeble cough and a general appearance of emaciation and anemia.
In the latter form the emaciation and loss of strength may be very great.
It is rare that one sees a generalized edema in slaughtered cattle as a result of fluke invasion, and even in the heaviest infections of young cattle only emaciation is noticed.
Longstanding, chronic diseases of important internal organs, leading to emaciation and weakness, or a prolonged semistarvation in winter may be sufficient cause.
As the end approaches emaciation becomes very marked, the blood is very thin and watery, and the closing of any wound of the skin by clots is retarded.
Unless the tumor is totally removed in its early stage of growth, together with the eyeball, the disease will eventually cause emaciation and death of the animal.
Even two or three weeks before the outbreak of the real sickness, emaciation takes place from which the face is strangely enough entirely exempt, so that children, when dressed show no signs of a change.
Many such children have succumbed to gradually progressing emaciation and weakness.
For this reason the chronic diseases contribute so much toward the multiplication of the number of consumptives, because they stipulate a continuous weakening of the organism and an emaciation of the system.
Vomiting was one of the principal symptoms of ulceration of the stomach, as by tending to starve and weaken the patient it produced emaciation and prostration.
He saw the dark rings come out beneath the drooping lids, and the paleness of the parted lips, and the terrible emaciation of the thin hand.
His fair, straight hair was brushed away from his thin, bluish temples, and the golden young beard could not conceal the emaciation of his throat when his head leaned against the back of his easy-chair.
The effect of disease and emaciation upon the pliability of the skin have been referred to above.
In some of these cases the animal may suddenly drop dead; in others the emaciation and weakness become so pronounced that it falls to the ground, and, after a short struggle, succumbs to the disease.
The disease is characterized by a progressive pernicious anemia, remittent fever, polyuria, and gradual emaciation in spite of a voracious appetite.
Sudden changes of temperature produced by falls of rain seem to hasten the progress of the complaint; but in general the emaciation goes on uninterruptedly for months, and, do what we will, the poor animals perish miserably.
Numbers who recovered from the measles were afterwards affected with debility, cough, emaciation and oedematous swellings of the face and extremities which proved very difficult to remove.
One died of emaciation six weeks after the attack.
So a resolute man, who wishes to take leave of sorrow, should practise right doing; for right doing is the true remedy for it, not regrets, nor emaciation of the body.
Emaciation and anemia are inevitable in such cases.
Through such disturbance nutrition is diminished, cell-atrophy progresses, and emaciationbecomes more marked.
In other words, Vasishtha attributes the leanness or emaciation of himself and his companions to the failure to discharge their daily rites of religious practice.
She had a persistent wish to be moving all the time, despite her emaciation and the exhaustion of the nutritive functions.
The emaciation of the subject is particularly noticeable.
For years before the reception of the shock her health had been very bad, and she seemed to be suffering from a progressiveemaciation and feebleness akin to chlorosis.
The emaciation and exhaustion are extreme, and the patient is as miserable as one with carcinoma of the esophagus, food either not being taken at all or only upon urgent compulsion.
The most extreme illustration of the effect of emaciation upon the food requirement is afforded by a woman who after losing nearly half of her body weight was found to need only 40 per cent.
The emaciationof the children of the poor probably reduces their requirement of food.
The coat is harsh and staring, there usually is short, dry cough from reflex irritation of the bronchial mucous membrane, a bad-smelling breath and emaciation or at least considerable poverty of flesh.
In bilious diarrhoea, with large brown fluid stools and complete loss of appetite, there is much thirst, and in a few days the dog gets rather thin, although nothing like so rapidly as in the emaciation of distemper.
