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cachexiae

cachexiae is the plural of cachexia.

Meaning of cachexia

Noun

cachexia (countable and uncountable, plural cachexias or cachexiae)

  1. A systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies a chronic disease.
    • An handful of the Leavs or Roots [of garden succory] boyled in Wine or Water, and a draught thereof drunk faſting, […] helpeth the yellow Jaundice, the Heat of the Reins and of the Urin, and the Dropſie also, and thoſe that have an evil Diſpoſition in their Bodies by reaſon of long ſickneſs, evil...1652, Nich[olas] Culpeper, “Succory”, in The English Physitian: Or An Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation. […], London: […] Peter Cole, […], →OCLC, pages 223–224
    Synonyms:
    cachexy

Questions about cachexiae

What is cachexiae the plural of?
Cachexiae is the plural of cachexia.

Words near cachexiae in the dictionary

  1. cachette
  2. cachettes
  3. Cacheu
  4. cachexia
  5. cachexia Africana
  6. cachexiae
  7. cachexias
  8. cachexic
  9. cachexies
  10. cachexin
  11. cachexy

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