Cachexia

Definition: Cachexia

Cachexia

Noun

1. Any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease.

"Cachexia" is a common misspelling or typo for: ataxia, cache.

Specialty Definitions: Cachexia

Domain	Definitions
Health	General ill health, malnutrition, and weight loss, usually associated with chronic disease. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Cachexia

Synonyms: cachexy (n), wasting (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Cachexia

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disease	Delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy; cachexia, atrophy, marasmus; indigestion, dyspepsia; decay; (deterioration); decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration.
Weakness	Declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength; delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia, sprain, strain.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Cachexia

English words defined with "cachexia": cachectic, Cachectical. (references)

Specialty definitions using "cachexia": anticachexia ♦ cancerous cachexia ♦ hydrazine sulfate. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Cachexia" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (cachexia), Latin (consumption, tuberculosis).

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Commercial Usage: Cachexia

Domain	Title
Books	Hormones and Nutrition in Obesity and Cachexia (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Cachexia

"Cachexia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cachexia" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	2	245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Cachexia

Expression using "cachexia": cancerous cachexia. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cachexia

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
cachexia	50
cancer cachexia	4
cardiac cachexia	4
cachexia treatment	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Cachexia

Language		Translations for "cachexia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		恶病质性. (various references)

Danish		cachexia (cachesia cancerous, carcinemia), kakeksi (cachesia cancerous, carcinemia, marasmus, phthisis). (various references)

Dutch		cachexie (cachesia cancerous, carcinemia, marasmus, phthisis). (various references)

French		consomption (cachectic tabes), cachexie (cachexy), phtisie. (various references)

German		Kachexie (marasmus, phthisis). (various references)

Greek		καχεξία (being ill, depression, emaciation, marasmus, phthisis, sickliness). (various references)

Italian		cachessia (marasmus, phthisis). (various references)

Korean		도덕의 타락. (various references)

Pig Latin		achexiacay.(various references)

Portuguese		caquexia (cachexy, marasmus, phthisis). (various references)

Spanish		caquexia (cachexy, marasmus, phthisis), caquesia. (various references)

Turkish		kaşeksi (cachexy), beden zayıflığı (cachexy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Cachexia

Derivations
	Words beginning with "cachexia": cachexias. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Cachexia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-h-i-x"
	-3 letters: aecia, cache, caeca.
	-4 letters: ache, caca, ceca, chia, chic, each.
	-5 letters: aah, ace, aha, axe, chi, hae, hex, hic, hie, ice, ich.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-h-i-x"
	+1 letter: cachexias.
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