different between cachexia vs frailty

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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Further reading

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French fraileté, from Latin fragilit?s. Doublet of fragility.

Noun

frailty (countable and uncountable, plural frailties)

1. (uncountable) The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived.
   • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 36, n. 1.

     the limitations and restraints of civil government, and a legal constitution, may be defended, either from reason, which reflecting on the great frailty and corruption of human nature, teaches, that no man can safely be trusted with unlimited authority ;

   Synonyms: frailness, infirmity

2. A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.

Related terms

• frail

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References

• frailty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.