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What does inanition mean?

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Noun
  1. Emptiness.
  2. (medicine) A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food or water, or a physiological inability to utilize them; starvation.
  3. (philosophy) A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to the Existentialist Philosophy state of "nausea".
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There is connected with inanition a singular tendency to decomposition and putridity, alike in the blood and viscera.
Through the use of infrared scanning technique, the test device can test the hair inanition clearly.
Despite surgical resection and chemotherapy, the patient's condition deteriorated during the next month and he died of inanition and cardiac failure.
And men may be over-disciplined, so that their impulses die away from inanition.
And the days pass, and she grows weak from inanition, but refuses all food.
Asthma, cancer, wasting, hemorrhage, inanition, and death have been linked to mold exposure since ancient times.

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