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Wasting vs Cachexia - What's the difference?

wasting | cachexia |

As nouns the difference between wasting and cachexia

is that wasting is gradual deterioration or wasting away while cachexia is a systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies a chronic disease.

As an adjective wasting

is causing a waste, particularly a wasting disease which causes pronounced loss of body mass.

As a verb wasting

is present participle of lang=en.

wasting

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Causing a waste, particularly a wasting disease which causes pronounced loss of body mass.

    • Derived terms

    *wasting disease

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Gradual deterioration or wasting away.
    • muscular wastings
  • The act by which something is laid waste; destruction.

    • 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.