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wasting

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?we?st??/
  • Rhymes: -e?st??

Verb

wasting

  1. present participle of waste

Adjective

wasting (not comparable)

  1. Causing a waste, or wasting away; causing pronounced loss of body mass.

Derived terms

  • wasting disease

Translations

Noun

wasting (countable and uncountable, plural wastings)

  1. Gradual deterioration or wasting away.
  2. The act by which something is laid waste; destruction.

Translations

Anagrams

  • stawing, tawings, tawsing

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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)

  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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References

Further reading

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

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