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Webster 1913 Edition


Cachexy

{ ‖

Ca-chex′i-a

,

Ca-chex′y

}
,
Noun.
[L.
cachexia
, Gr.
καχεξία
;
κακόσ
bad +
ἕξισ
condition.]
A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle).

Webster 1828 Edition


Cachexy

CACHEXY

,
Noun.
A vicious state of the powers of the body; a deranged state of the constitution, without fever or nervous disease.

Definition 2024


cachexy

cachexy

English

Noun

cachexy (countable and uncountable, plural cachexies)

  1. (medicine, archaic) Cachexia.