cachexia
noun/kəˈkɛksɪə/UK/kəˈkɛksiə/US
Etymology
From Late Latin cachexia or French cachexie, from Ancient Greek καχεξία (kakhexía), from κακός (kakós, “bad; injurious”) + ἕξῐς (héxĭs, “act of having; habit or state of body”) (ultimately from ἔχω (ékhō, “to have”)) + -ῐᾰ (-ĭă, suffix added to adjectives to form abstract nouns).
Definitions
A systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies a…
A systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies a chronic disease.
- [T]he intimate nature of cachexia is a deterioration in the qualities of blood, a favourite doctrine with the humoral pathologists, in support of which many very powerful arguments might still be adduced.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for cachexia. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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