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Starvation is a severe deficiency in caloric energy intake, below the level needed to maintain an organism's life. It is the most extreme form of malnutrition.In humans, prolonged starvation can cause permanent organ damage [1] and eventually, death.
The gender of the Greek word limos can be either masculine or feminine. [4] The same gender uncertainty applied also to the personification, which could be considered as either a man or a woman. At Byzantium there was a statue of Limos as a man, while there was a painting of Limos as a woman at Sparta .
Starvation response in animals (including humans) is a set of adaptive biochemical and physiological changes, triggered by lack of food or extreme weight loss, in which the body seeks to conserve energy by reducing metabolic rate and/or non-resting energy expenditure to prolong survival and preserve body fat and lean mass.
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
Kwashiorkor (/ ˌ k w ɒ ʃ i ˈ ɔːr k ɔːr,-k ər / KWOSH-ee-OR-kor, -kər, is also KWASH-) [1] is a form of severe protein malnutrition characterized by edema and an enlarged liver with fatty infiltrates. [2]
Refeeding syndrome (RFS) is a metabolic disturbance which occurs as a result of reinstitution of nutrition in people who are starved, severely malnourished, or metabolically stressed because of severe illness.
Starving woman during the blockade of Biafra, an event that contributed significantly to the criminalization of starvation. Starvation of a civilian population is a war crime, a crime against humanity, and an act of genocide according to modern international criminal law.
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