I think that emaciation is more often a sign of victimhood than cruelty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Other things about your characters that rarely matter] Reference

The most visible problems, such as emaciation are the result of sheer emotional neglect.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2007] Reference

Furthermore, Brown said FEMA suffered "emaciation" because anti-terror operations had become a priority for the administration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurricane Katrina] Reference

Little wandering, emigration, or emaciation is noticed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914] Reference

This complication is indicated by emaciation and weakness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

In their waste we ourselves also are suffering emaciation!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

On the other hand, he continued to endure waste and emaciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

In about eighteen months he died in a state of extreme emaciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

Dyspepsia and general debility and emaciation accompanied the disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Electric Bath] Reference

Even in her waxy whiteness and unnatural emaciation, her face was good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference

Many had upper respiratory infections, ear mites, tumors, and emaciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wayne Pacelle: 150 Cats Rescued from Hoarding Case in Wyoming (VIDEO)] Reference

In the severe form the emaciation and loss of strength may be very great.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Veterinarian] Reference

This man appeared in tolerable health as to body, his emaciation excepted.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference

Refugees who had hidden in the woods came to the camps in rags and emaciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm] Reference

Under his discolored uniform, the body was spare almost to the point of emaciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Days The Story of a War Marriage] Reference

There is loss of appetite, rapid emaciation, the flank is tucked up and the back arched.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference

The prostrate figure was that of a boy, dark-skinned and thin to the point of emaciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Ace] Reference

The animal dies by general emaciation from four to six days after the first symptoms are noticed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Veterinarian] Reference

The few rags that covered them only served to emphasize the emaciation of their bodies and limbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage with Captain Dynamite] Reference

The emaciation of his long form was plainly seen through the single scarlet blanket which covered it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

Great emaciation occurred, accompanied by hectic fever, the temperature ranging from normal to 102. 5°.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference

The disease, marked by emaciation and uncontrollable drooling in elk and deer, has been around for decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Plague On The Plains] Reference

The fellow was dirty, as always, and his ragged clothes only emphasized the emaciation of his dwarfed form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

Through such disturbance nutrition is diminished, cell-atrophy progresses, and emaciation becomes more marked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference

Extreme emaciation, without any other assignable cause for it, may be set down as another very common symptom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

Coughing, rapid and labored breathing, loss of appetite, emaciation and weakness are the usual symptoms noticed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

Many of them had long been ill, and want of cleanliness and vermin had helped to reduce them to extreme emaciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference

Daily washing in salt water, together with their extreme emaciation, caused the skin to appear like dried parchment.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference

Aged cattle do not seem to suffer much from tapeworms, but in calves these parasites cause scours and rapid emaciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Veterinarian] Reference

Her practice of frequent bleeding had brought on a state of complete emaciation, and left very little blood in her body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

She was a woman of about fifty, who even in the last stages of emaciation and weakness showed traces of wonderful beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

Mrs. Tyler procured a number of photographs of these wretched men, representing them in all their squalor and emaciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference

Nothing could exceed the emaciation and puniness of the little creature, and the mother was carrying it about upon a pillow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference

But to all conscious of possessing poetical temperament in company with emaciation, the explanation has seemed intolerably sordid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference

He was stone-dead when I turned him over; and judging by the terrible emaciation of his body he had died of protracted starvation.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference

Growth may be as rapid when the bearer is in a condition of extreme emaciation as it is when the bearer is well nourished and robust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disease and Its Causes] Reference