different between cachexia vs cachectic

cachexia

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)

(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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cachectic

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cachecticus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /k??k?kt?k/
Rhymes: -?kt?k

Adjective

cachectic (comparative more cachectic, superlative most cachectic)

Having cachexia; wasting away from a disease or chronic illness.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 44:
  His horse has been restored to him (cachectic as ever, looking like one of the gutted nags the Druids used to impale for decoration) […]

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procachectic

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cachexia

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cachectic

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