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
Example Sentences
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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
Everybody researching cachexia is trying to find the “magic bullet,” Adegoke says—a treatment to help all sufferers.
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
On no account may the whole of the thyreoid gland be removed, as this is followed by the development of symptoms closely resembling those of myxœdema—operative myxœdema or cachexia strumipriva.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
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