wasting disease
Noun
Meaning
wasting disease (plural wasting diseases)
Any medical condition that causes pronounced loss of body mass.
He suffered from a horrible wasting disease and lost 100 pounds in only two weeks.
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Although he had promised Carolinians that the cowardly Northerners would turn tail and run at the first sight of Southern swords, he lost one of his sons to a Yankee bullet and another to a wasting disease contracted during the war.
Chronic wasting disease, or CWD, first showed up in Utah in 2002 when a buck mule deer killed during the rifle hunt near Vernal tested positive.
Chronic wasting disease is present in 55 of Saskatchewan's 85 wildlife management zones.
An unlucky 13 new cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) were confirmed at a captive white-tail deer breeding facility in Medina County on June 29 – just a year after the fatal disease first appeared in the Texas white-tail population.
• Sea star wasting disease, kelp forest die-off, sea urchin over-population and starving North Coast abalone are symptoms of climate change.
The DNR issued the 30-day rule Monday, Dec. 23, after chronic wasting disease was discovered in a farmed white-tailed deer in Douglas County.