cachectic
- a word derived from cachexia.
Example Sentences
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"The people on my operating table were undernourished. A lot of them were cachectic," she said, referring to people experiencing extreme weight loss and muscle wasting.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2024
Relative to healthy mice, lactate was the most highly elevated metabolite in the cachectic mice.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 2, 2024
As others have noted, it means you are healthy looking and not sickly or cachectic.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2010
Pleuritis, which we have stated is apt to be suppurative, demands the same treatment as the idiopathic disease when it occurs in cachectic patients.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Two of these factors, as above enumerated, are more or less general to the system, being the consequence of general cachectic states.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
