from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun Weight loss, wasting of muscle, loss of appetite, and general debility that can occur during a chronic disease.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun Same as cachexy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun medicine A systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies a chronicdisease
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Late Latin, from Greek kakhexiā : kako-, caco- + hexis, condition (from ekhein, to have; see segh- in Indo-European roots).]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Ancient Greek κακός (kakos, "bad, wretched") + ἔχειν (ekhein, "to have"), present active infinitive of ἔχω
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The syndrome called cachexia is responsible for between one-fifth and one-third of all cancer deaths.
About half of all cancer patients eventually suffer serious weight loss and malnutrition, a wasting syndrome called cachexia where they don't just lose excess fat but vital muscle.
Muscle wasting - called cachexia - is thought to account for about 30 percent of deaths in patients with cancer, but how exactly cachexia is spurred by cancer - or indeed exactly how it leads to a patient's decline - isn't known.
Ostarine is believed to increase lean body mass and improve muscle strength and performance in post-menopausal women, elderly men and men and women with cancer cachexia, which is body wasting brought on by cancer.
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