Usually means: Severe weight loss, muscle wasting.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. cachexia: Merriam-Webster
  2. cachexia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cachexia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cachexia: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cachexia: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cachexia, cachexia: Wordnik
  7. cachexia: Wiktionary
  8. cachexia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cachexia: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. cachexia: Dictionary.com
  11. Cachexia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Cachexia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. cachexia: Rhymezone
  14. Cachexia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. cachexia: FreeDictionary.org
  16. cachexia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. cachexia: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cachexia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. cachexia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Cachexia: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Cachexia: Merck Manuals
  8. Cachexia: MedFriendly Glossary
  9. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  10. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  11. cachexia: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  12. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  13. cachexia: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  14. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  15. cachexia: Medical dictionary
  16. Cachexia: Drug Medical Dictionary
  17. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cachexia)

noun:  (pathology) A systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies a chronic disease.

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