different between cachexia vs anorexia

English

Etymology

From Late Latin cachexia or French cachexie, from Ancient Greek ??????? (kakhexía), from ????? (kakós, “bad; injurious”) + ???? (héxis, “act of having; habit or state of body”) (ultimately from ??? (ékh?, “to have”)) + -?? (-ia, suffix added to adjectives to form abstract nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??k?ks??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??k?ksi?/
• Hyphenation: ca?che?xia

Noun

cachexia (countable and uncountable, plural cachexias or cachexiae)

1. (pathology) A systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies a chronic disease. [from mid 16th c.]

   Synonym: cachexy

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Notes

References

Further reading

• cachexia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• cachexia at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (anorexía), from ??- (an-, “without”) + ?????? (órexis, “appetite”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /æn????ksi.?/

Noun

anorexia (countable and uncountable, plural anorexias)

1. Loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease.
2. Anorexia nervosa.

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Translations

Further reading

• anorexia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Galician

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (anorexía).

Noun

anorexia f (plural anorexias)

1. anorexia (anorexia nervosa)

   Synonym: anorexia nerviosa

Derived terms

• anoréxico

Further reading

• “anorexia” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (anorexía).

Noun

anorexia f (plural anorexias)

1. anorexia (anorexia nervosa)

   Synonym: anorexia nervosa

Derived terms

• anoréxico

Further reading

• “anorexia” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (anorexía).

Noun

anorexia f (plural anorexias)

1. anorexia (anorexia nervosa)

   Synonyms: anorexia mental, anorexia nerviosa

Derived terms

• anoréxico

Further reading

• “anorexia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.