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cachexia (kә-kekīse-ә) a profound and marked state of constitutional disorder; general ill health and malnutrition. adj. cachecītic., adj. cancer cachexia
anorexia-cachexia syndrome in cancer patients. cachexia hypophysiopriva
symptoms resulting from total loss of pituitary function, including loss of sexual function, bradycardia, hypothermia, apathy,
and coma. malarial cachexia
the physical signs resulting from antecedent attacks of severe malaria, including anemia, sallow skin, yellow sclera, splenomegaly,
hepatomegaly, and, in children, retardation of growth and puberty. pituitary cachexia
Simmonds disease.
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