Cachexia

cachexia /ca·chex·ia/ (kah-kek´se-ah) a profound and marked state of constitutional disorder; general ill health and malnutrition.cachec´tic

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cachexia hypophysiopri´va  the train of symptoms resulting from total deprivation of pituitary function, including loss of sexual function, bradycardia, hypothermia, and coma.

malarial cachexia  the physical signs resulting from antecedent attacks of severe malaria, including anemia, sallow skin, yellow sclera, splenomegaly, hepatomegaly, and, in children, retardation of growth and puberty.

pituitary cachexia  see panhypopituitarism.

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ca·chex·i·a (k-kks-)

n.

Weight loss, wasting of muscle, loss of appetite, and general debility that can occur during a chronic disease.

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Cachexia

A condition of general ill health, malnutrition, undesired weight loss, and physical weakness, often associated with cancer.

Mentioned in: Appetite-Enhancing Drugs

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cachexia (k·kekˑ·sē·),

n state of health with physical atrophy and weakness often found in the last stages of terminal illness.

Cachexia.

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cachexia (kkek´sē),

n the weakness, loss of weight, atrophy, and emaciation caused by severe or chronic disease such as with AIDS.

cachexia, hypophysial,

n See disease, Simmonds'.

cachexia hypopituitary,

n See disease, Simmonds'.

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cachexia

a profound and marked state of constitutional disorder; general ill health and malnutrition. See also emaciation.

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cardiac cachexia

severe wasting that occurs in association with chronic cardiac insufficiency. The result of anorexia, malabsorption and poor tissue perfusion with cellular anoxia.

pituitary cachexia

that due to diminution or absence of pituitary function. Manifested by progressive loss of body weight associated with muscle atrophy due to lack of protein anabolism in the absence of growth hormone.