cachexia
noun
general ill health with emaciation, usually occurring in association with cancer or a chronic infectious disease.
cachexy
-
a variation of
cachexia.
Example Sentences
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The second consideration is that of health: a severe illness may alarm us for the time being, but an illness of a chronic nature or even cachexy frightens us away, because it would be transmitted.
From Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer
Parkinson says: "Whoso is drawing towards a consumption, or ready to fall into a cachexy, shall find a wonderful help from the use thereof, for some time together."
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
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 Adolphus W. Greely
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 Count Carlo Gozzi
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 James Rutherford
