Usage examples (37)

• She had what is called kwashiorkor i.e. severe protein and calorie malnutrition.
• I notice one young boy's badly swollen feet: they're a sign of a medical condition known as kwashiorkor, or severe protein deficiency.
• Nutritional diseases such as kwashiorkor are no longer notifiable, and so it is not easy to estimate their scale.
• The West learned a new word, "kwashiorkor," the fatal lack of protein from which thousands of children were dying.