cachexia
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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
Almost all the measurable symptoms of cachexia were reduced or even reversed, Xiao says, especially the effects related to fat loss.
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
It found inmates were "significantly malnourished" and dealing with a condition called cachexia, also known as wasting syndrome.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2023
Hayem asserts, that he has found such blood in Purpura hæmorrhagica, Anæmia perniciosa protopathica, malarial cachexia: and some infectious diseases.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers
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