CACHEXY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cachexy mean? 

• CACHEXY (noun)
  The noun CACHEXY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CACHEXY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CACHEXY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cachexia; cachexy; wasting

Hypernyms ("cachexy" is a kind of...):

debility; feebleness; frailness; frailty; infirmity; valetudinarianism (the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age))

Derivation:

cachectic (relating to or having the symptoms of cachexia)