Cachexia

Quick meaning: Cachexia is a noun meaning (pathology) A systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies a chronic disease.

Meaning

(pathology) A systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies a chronic disease.

Example Sentences

While sarcopenia occurs very commonly with aging, cachexia occurs mainly in association with acute or chronic disease.

Cancer cachexia is a complex metabolic process, due to both host and tumor factors, which results in excess catabolism as well as aberrant fat and carbohydrate metabolism.

Cancer cachexia is a complex syndrome clinically manifest by progressive involuntary weight loss and diminished food intake and characterized by a variety of biochemical alterations.

[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.

Word Forms

• cachexias
• cachexiae

Synonyms for cachexia

Depending on context, synonyms include cachexy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cachexy, anorexia, paludal, dystrophy, consumption, sarcopenia.

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