You Are Reading a Case Study from a Researcher at World

question 25

Multiple Choice

You are reading a case study from a researcher at World University. The researcher has traveled to the largest city in India and is reporting on an illness present in a 15-month-old boy. The researcher describes the child as extremely thin and bony, with wrinkled skin and enlarged fatty liver. For the past year, this child has subsisted almost entirely on diluted cereal drink. Your first thought is that most of these observations are characteristic of marasmus, but then you realize that ____ is more consistent with kawashikor.

• A)wrinkled skin
• B)food intake pattern
• C)enlarged fatty liver
• D)extremely thin
• E)bony appearance

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Definitions:

Mesolithic

The Middle Stone Age, a period in human history between the Paleolithic and Neolithic, characterized by the development of small stone tools and the beginning of a sedentary lifestyle.

Natufians

A prehistoric people who lived in the Levant, around 12,000 to 9,500 BC, known for the early adoption of sedentary lifestyles and agriculture.

Domestication

The process of adapting animals and plants through selective breeding for use by humans, often to fulfill specific roles or to produce specific products.

Sickle

A hand-held agricultural tool with a curved blade for harvesting or cutting crops.