You're tempted to say that “moderate" doesn't sound so bad?

It's only "moderate" in that they are less than three standard deviations below the median in terms of weight-for-height, but who can visualise that?

Get a ruler.
Measure out 3.7 cm.
If their biceps (!) is any thicker than that, they suffer only "moderate" acute malnutrition.*

https://www.who.int/tools/elena/interventions/food-children-mam

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* The actual definition is in terms of the circumference, but that's notoriously less intuitive than the diameter.
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