cachexia
noun
general ill health with emaciation, usually occurring in association with cancer or a chronic infectious disease.
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
The hæmorrhages, which are so characteristic of the disease, are usually preceded for some weeks by a cachectic condition, with listlessness and debility and disinclination for movement.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
I noticed that he had a peculiar look, a feeble state of the body which he was at times at pains to conceal, a look which the doctors call, I believe, cachectic.
From The Social Gangster by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
