Malnutrition, Famine, Starvation
- Malnutrition is a general term for a condition caused by improper diet or nutrition; it can occur in conjunction with both under and over consumption of calories.
- Famine is a widespread scarcity of food that may apply to any fauna species; the phenomenon is usually accompanied by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality.
- Starvation describes a "state of exhaustion of the body caused by lack of food." This state may precede death.
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Famous quotes containing the word starvation:
“The spectacle of misery grew in its crushing volume. There seemed to be no end to the houses full of hunted starved children. Children with dysentery, children with scurvy, children at every stage of starvation.... We learned to know that the barometer of starvation was the number of children deserted in any community.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)