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Noun Concept
Categories: Disorders causing edema, Articles with permanently dead external links, Articles with short description, Protein–energy malnutrition
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kwashiorkor
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Severe malnutrition in children resulting from a diet excessively high in carbohydrates and low in protein WordNet 3.0
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Severe malnutrition in children resulting from a diet excessively high in carbohydrates and low in protein WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Kwashiorkor is a form of severe protein malnutrition characterized by edema and an enlarged liver with fatty infiltrates. Wikipedia
An acute form of childhood protein-energy malnutrition characterized by edema, irritability, anorexia, ulcerating dermatoses, and an enlarged liver with fatty infiltrates (source: Wikipedia). OmegaWiki
A form of malnutrition, found in children, caused by dietary insufficiency of protein in combination with a high-carbohydrate diet. Wiktionary
Form of malnutrition. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
malnutrition
disease
protein-energy malnutrition
DISCOVERER OR INVENTOR
Cicely Williams
HEALTH SPECIALTY
endocrinology
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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kwashiorkor
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kwashiorkor
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kwashiorkor
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kwashiorkor
OmegaWiki
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kwashiorkor
Wikipedia Redirections
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Kwakishor, Kwashiokor, Kwasiokor
Wikidata Alias
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Kwashiokor, Nutritional edema with dyspigmentation of skin and hair, Nutritional oedema with dyspigmentation of skin and/or hair

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