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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n.名词 noun
- 1
Pathology.
- : general ill health with emaciation, usually occurring in association with cancer or a chronic infectious disease.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as indisorder
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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.
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