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athrepsy, athrepsia, athreptic
1. Lacking nourishment.
2. Known as marasmus: Emaciation and wasting in an infant due to malnutrition.
3. In medicine, immunity to tumor inoculation due to a supposed lack of the special nutritive material necessary for tumor growth.
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