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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

It found inmates were "significantly malnourished" and dealing with a condition called cachexia, also known as wasting syndrome.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2023

Ainslie states that the native herb-doctors of India give the juice in intestinal obstruction and in the œdema of malarial cachexia.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas


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