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cachexia

/kuh-kek-see-uh/US // kəˈkɛk si ə //UK // (kəˈkɛksɪə) //

恶病质,恶癖症,恶性肿瘤,恶习

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Pathology.

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

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • He was of that peculiar temperament which indicates a scrofulous cachexia.

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

  • The enlarged spleen of repeated agues, or of the malarial cachexia, is commonly known as the ague-cake.

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

  • Clinically it is recognized by the occurrence after pregnancy of violent haemorrhages, progressive cachexia and fever with rigors.