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What is atrophic malnutrition (Marasmus)?
Marasmus is one of the severe forms of malnutrition in children. In this form of malnutrition, children have a weight less than 60% or -4SD compared to the normal weight of children of the same age. Children are emaciated, bony, skin and bones, with faces like those of old people because there is no fat layer under the skin, abdomen, buttocks and cheeks.
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