different between frailty vs sarcopenia

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

Translations

References

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

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (sárx, “flesh”) +? ?????? (pení?, “poverty, want”)

Noun

sarcopenia (usually uncountable, plural sarcopenias)

1. (pathology) gradual age-related loss of skeletal muscle

Derived terms

• sarcopenic
• osteosarcopenia

Translations

References

• http://www.wordspy.com/words/sarcopenia.asp
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17052879&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum

Anagrams

• paranoeics, paranœics

Dutch

Noun

sarcopenia f (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of sarcopenie

Spanish

Noun

sarcopenia f (plural sarcopenias)

1. sarcopenia