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
But occasionally, most often in acute, but also in chronic anæmias, and even in cachectic conditions, every field shews one or more normoblasts.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers
One of the most protracted cases is that recorded by Bollinger of a veterinarian who, after an eleven years' illness, recovered with cicatricial contraction of the nose and larynx and a decided cachectic appearance.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
