Friday Word: Inanition
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1word1dayInanition - noun.
Today's word comes from the handwritten scrawl on a death certificate for my great-grandaunt, who, sadly, passed away five days after being born. I couldn't make out the doctor's scrawl and asked the Internet for help.
Inanition is a state of profound physical exhaustion and weakness caused by a severe lack of nourishment, food, water, or the body's inability to absorb them. Today we would call it "failure to thrive", but it can also apply to elderly people as well as babies.
Today's word comes from the handwritten scrawl on a death certificate for my great-grandaunt, who, sadly, passed away five days after being born. I couldn't make out the doctor's scrawl and asked the Internet for help.
Inanition is a state of profound physical exhaustion and weakness caused by a severe lack of nourishment, food, water, or the body's inability to absorb them. Today we would call it "failure to thrive", but it can also apply to elderly people as well as babies.
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Date: 2026-05-15 07:27 pm (UTC)