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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

Was all of this extra lactate actually causing 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

The causes of death he would place in the following order: gradual cardiac failure; uremia; apoplexy; some complicating acute infection; angina pectoris; accidental causes; acute edema of the lungs and cachexia.

From Disturbances of the Heart by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne




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