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cachexia

[kuh-kek-see-uh] / kəˈkɛk si ə /


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"This discovery could have implications for cancer patients who experience cachexia, or muscle wasting due to the disease and its treatments."

From Science Daily • May 21, 2024

The PKU team wondered whether lactate was using one of these receptors to cause cachexia.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 2, 2024

Several years earlier, other international forensics experts had already rejected the official cause of death as cachexia, or weakness and wasting of the body due to chronic illness — in his case, cancer.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2024

He had been suffering from prostate cancer and his death certificate said he died of "cancerous cachexia" - a wasting away caused by the disease.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2023

All cases of malarial fever and malarial cachexia.

From The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) by Worcester, Dean C.