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Definition: Cachexy |
CachexyNoun1. Any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: CachexySynonyms: cachexia (n), wasting (n). (additional references) |
| 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. | |
| Language | Translations for "cachexy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tretje (assimilation, attrition, decomposition, digestion, dissolution, evaporation, incision, maceration, melting). (various references) | |
Arabic | الإعتلا ل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хроническа слабост, кахексия. (various references) | |
Czech | vyhublost (emaciation, gauntness). (various references) | |
Danish | blykachexi (lead poisoning cachexy, saturnine cachexy). (various references) | |
Dutch | cachexia saturnina (lead poisoning cachexy, saturnine cachexy). (various references) | |
French | cachexie (cachexia). (various references) | |
German | Marasmus senilis (decrepitude, dotage, senile cachexy, senility), Bleikachexie (lead poisoning cachexy, saturnine cachexy), Alterskachexie (decrepitude, dotage, senile cachexy, senility). (various references) | |
Greek | μολυβδιασική καχεξία (lead poisoning cachexy, saturnine cachexy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | leromlás (ageing, failure). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 悪液質 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | あくえきしつ. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | achexycay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | caquexia (cachexia, marasmus, phthisis). (various references) | |
Romanian | caşexie. (various references) | |
Russian | кахексия. (various references) | |
Spanish | caquexia (cachexia, marasmus, phthisis). (various references) | |
Swedish | avtärdhet (emaciation). (various references) | |
Turkish | kaşeksi (cachexia), beden zayıflığı (cachexia). (various references) | |
Ukranian | виснаження (attenuation, attrition, debilitation, depletion, emaciation, exhaustion, goneness, maceration), моральний занепад, знесилення (collapse, enervation, fag), деградація (demission). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-h-x-y" | |
-2 letters: cache, yecch. | |
-3 letters: ache, achy, ceca, chay, each, yeah, yech. | |
-4 letters: ace, axe, aye, cay, hae, hay, hex, hey, yah, yea, yeh. | |
-5 letters: ae, ah, ax, ay, eh, ex, ha, he, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-h-x-y" | |
+4 letters: cyclohexane. | |
+5 letters: cyclohexanes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 63 68 65 78 79 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- -.-. .... . -..- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01100011 01101000 01100101 01111000 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a c h e x y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0063 0068 0065 0078 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37676974719091 |
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