cachexy
- a variation of cachexia.
Example Sentences
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An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
Likewise the cachexy, or evill habit of the body, and the dropsie in the beginning thereof, before it be too farre gone.
From Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain by Rutherford, James
In both cases the local disease, when extensive and of long duration, will necessarily occasion an exhaustion of the vital powers, by which that condition of the system termed cachexy will be induced.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin
Not many days afterwards I received the sad announcement that my brother Francesco was seriously ill of a kind of cachexy on his estate in Friuli.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo
This fearful disease, so often warded off when in a direct attack, now exhibited itself in a cachexy, a depraved condition of system sad to encounter.
From Explorers and Travellers by Greely, Adolphus W.
