Emaciation, also known as muscle death or necrosis, is the process of physical degradation in which the muscles of the body, through underuse, grow weak. A top-down view of skeletal muscle Muscle is a contractile form of tissue. ...
While obesity causes diseases of the vital organs of the body which are degenerative and crippling in origin, emaciation also cause infectious and febral disease.
Emaciation is the condition when there is weight loss, either gradually or suddenly.
In such children, the main cause for emaciation and fatigue is that their intestines are infested with worms.