cachexia
Cachexia (noun) means Cachexia is a severe loss of muscle and body weight brought on by an ongoing, chronic illness. Example: “Cachexia is common in the later stages of cancer.”
How to use cachexia
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishCachexia is severe wasting of the body caused by long-term illness.
Cachexia is a specialist medical term used mainly in clinical and scientific writing.
Cachexia describes wasting caused by disease, not simply being thin or on a diet.
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_____ is common in the later stages of cancer.
Etymology
Cachexia comes from Late Latin cachexia, or French cachexie, which in turn goes back to Ancient Greek kakhexia. That Greek word combined kakos, meaning bad or injurious, with hexis, meaning a state of the body.
