Maceration vs Emaciated - What's the difference?

As a noun maceration

is the act or process of macerating.

thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.

past tense of emaciate.

(en noun)

The act or process of macerating.

* The Armored Dinosaurs edited by Kenneth Carpenter 2001 google print ref

... proposed that the small size of the teeth ... implied that most of the maceration of the food occurred after swallowing.

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(en adjective)

Thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.

The emaciated prisoners in the death camps were weak and sickly.

* See also

(head)

(emaciate)