Extreme skinniness, characterized by a complete lack of body fat and visible bones beneath the skin. Possible causes include starvation, malnourishment, disease, eating disorders, or a stylistic device used to show a character's extreme exhaustion.

For naturally thin bodies, see skinny. Emaciated is for unnatural levels of skinniness.

Examples

See also

• skinny
• petite
• plump
• fat
• obese

External links

• Wikipedia: Emaciation

The following tags are aliased to this tag: anorexic, scrawny, and very_thin (learn more).

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