cachexia
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of cachexia
1535–45; < Late Latin < Greek, equivalent to kak ( ós ) bad + héx ( is ) condition ( hek-, variant stem of échein to have + -sis -sis ) + -ia -ia
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"This discovery could have implications for cancer patients who experience cachexia, or muscle wasting due to the disease and its treatments."
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024
The PKU team wondered whether lactate was using one of these receptors to cause cachexia.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 2, 2024
Several years earlier, other international forensics experts had already rejected the official cause of death as cachexia, or weakness and wasting of the body due to chronic illness — in his case, cancer.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
He had been suffering from prostate cancer and his death certificate said he died of "cancerous cachexia" - a wasting away caused by the disease.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2023
The effects of this more acute inflammatory process are not appreciable in the general condition of the animal, except to weaken it still further and add to its debilitated and emaciated cachexia.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
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