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Trying to live on a semistarvation diet of 500 calories a day—to say nothing of the unregulated supplements—puts her at risk of malnutrition, muscle loss, and cardiac issues.

Before I could receive a permanent appointment I would have to take a physical examination and the weight requirement was one hundred and twenty-five pounds and I—with my long years of semistarvation—barely tipped the scales at a hundred and ten.

Like Gauguin, he abruptly quits all that for Paris, semistarvation and oil painting.

Whenever starvation supervenes, and the usual hospital liquid diet is really semistarvation, the bacteria normally present in the bowel increase enormously and produce large amounts of flatus.

Longstanding, chronic diseases of important internal organs, leading to emaciation and weakness, or a prolonged semistarvation in winter may be sufficient cause.