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Health vs Cachexia - What's the difference?

health | cachexia |

As nouns the difference between health and cachexia

is that health is the state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness while cachexia is (medicine|pathology) a systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies a chronic disease.

health

English

(wikipedia health)

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
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  • A state of well-being or balance, often physical but sometimes also mental and social; the overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level.
  • Physical condition.
  • (obsolete) Cure, remedy.
  • *, Bk.XVII, Ch.XI:
  • *:And she myght have a dysshfulle of bloode of a maydyn and a clene virgyne in wylle and in worke, and a kynges doughter, that bloode sholde be her helth , for to anoynte her withall.
  • (countable) A toast to prosperity.
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    • Derived terms

    * healthiness * healthy * healthcare * bill of health * health food * health worker

    Related terms

    * heal

    References

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    cachexia

    English

    (wikipedia cachexia)

    Noun

  • (medicine, pathology) A systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies a chronic disease.
  • * 2007 , Lawrence E. Harrison, 84: Nutritional Support for the Cancer Patient'', Alfred E. Chang, Patricia A. Ganz, Daniel F. Hayes, Timothy Kinsella, Harvey I. Pass, Joan H. Schiller, Richard M. Stone, Victor Strecher (editors), ''Oncology: An Evidence-Based Approach , page 1488,
    • 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.
  • * 2007 , Toby C. Campbell, Jamie H. Von Roenn, Chapter 11: Anorexia/Weight Loss'', Ann M. Berger, John L. Shuster, Jamie H. Von Roenn (editors), ''Principles and Practice of Palliative Care and Supportive Oncology , page 125,
    • 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.
  • * 2008 , Mary Marian, Scott A. Shikora, Mary Russell, Clinical Nutrition for Surgical Patients , page 84,
    • Preoperative nutritional therapy in CHF[Cardiac Heart Failure] patients with cachexia is associated with improved postoperative survival rates (56).
  • * 2009 , Connie W. Bales, Christine S. Ritchie, Handbook of Clinical Nutrition and Aging , page 158,
    • While sarcopenia occurs very commonly with aging, cachexia occurs mainly in association with acute or chronic disease.