Definitions for cachexia

cachexia ca·chex·i·a

Spelling: [kuh-kek-see-uh]
IPA: /kəˈkɛk si ə/

Cachexia is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in cachexia (aaccehix).

Definitions for cachexia

noun

  1. general ill health with emaciation, usually occurring in association with cancer or a chronic infectious disease.

Origin of cachexia

1535-45; Late Latin Greek, equivalent to kak(ós) bad + héx(is) condition (hek-, variant stem of échein to have + -sis -sis) + -ia -ia

Examples for cachexia

The symptoms which induce women to seek medical aid are haemorrhage, foetid discharge, and later pain and cachexia.

The cachexia and rapid decline are not seen in catarrhal ulceration.

Malaria, if severe, may interrupt gestation through fever or cachexia.

In the cachexia from tumours an increase of the eosinophil cells has been observed by various authors.

The cachexia Africana, like other spanœmic states of the system, may run into Phthisis, or become complicated with it.

It produces anæmia and cachexia in animals when given in small repeated doses.

There exists in some individuals a predisposition to "catching cold," independent of any cachexia.

Word Value for cachexia
Scrable

22

Words with friends

23

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