| NOUN | state | wasting, cachexia, cachexy | any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease |
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| state | wasting, atrophy, wasting away | a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse |
| Sounds | wey'stihng | |
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| Rhymes | abducting ... zoning: 2044 rhymes with ihng... | |
| Meaning | Any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease. | |
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| Synonyms | cachexia, cachexy | |
| Broader | infirmity, frailty, debility, feebleness, frailness, valetudinarianism | The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) |
| Spanish | caquexia | |
| Catalan | caquèxia | |
| Verbs | waste | cause to grow thin or weak |
| Meaning | A decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse. | |
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| Synonyms | atrophy, wasting away | |
| Narrower | amyotrophia, amyotrophy | progressive wasting of muscle tissues |
| kraurosis | atrophy and shriveling of the skin or mucous membrane | |
| tabes | Wasting of the body during a chronic disease | |
| Broader | symptom | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease |
| Spanish | atrofia | |
| Catalan | atròfia | |
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