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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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Further reading
- cachexia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- cachexia at OneLook Dictionary Search
cachexia From the web:
- what cachexia mean
- what causes cachexia
- what is cachexia in cancer
- what causes cachexia in cancer patients
- what is cachexia anorexia syndrome
- what is cachexia in medical terms
- what does cachexia look like
- what is cachexia or wasting syndrome
emaciation
English
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
emaciation (countable and uncountable, plural emaciations)
- The act of making very lean.
- The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
Related terms
- emaciate
Translations
emaciation From the web:
- what emaciation mean
- what causes emaciation
- what causes emaciation in humans
- what is emaciation in biology
- what causes emaciation in cattle
- what is emaciation
- what does emaciation definition
- what does emaciated me
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