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(medicine, pathology) A systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies a chronic disease.
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* 2009 , Connie W. Bales, Christine S. Ritchie, Handbook of Clinical Nutrition and Aging ,
Lacking a definition or value.
(mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
As a noun cachexia
is (medicine|pathology) a systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies a chronic disease.As an adjective undefined is
lacking a definition or value.cachexia
English
(wikipedia cachexia)Noun
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- Cancer cachexia is a complex syndrome clinically manifest by progressive involuntary weight loss and diminished food intake and characterized by a variety of biochemical alterations.
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- Cancer cachexia is a complex metabolic process, due to both host and tumor factors, which results in excess catabolism as well as aberrant fat and carbohydrate metabolism.
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- Preoperative nutritional therapy in CHF[Cardiac Heart Failure] patients with cachexia is associated with improved postoperative survival rates (56).
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- While sarcopenia occurs very commonly with aging, cachexia occurs mainly in association with acute or chronic disease.
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Adjective
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