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
The cause of cachexia has remained a millennia-old medical mystery, and there are currently no approved therapies to treat it.
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
There is one supposed safeguard that does not seem to have the slightest title to be so regarded—namely, the notion that a typical pock cannot be developed on a person affected with a specific cachexia.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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