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sarcopaenia

sarcopaenia is the alternative form of sarcopenia.

Meaning of sarcopenia

Noun

sarcopenia (usually uncountable, plural sarcopenias)

  1. (usually) Gradual loss of skeletal muscle due to aging, immobility, illness, or combinations thereof.
    • Now, let me stop here to make a sort of plea. No decline with age is more dramatic or potentially more functionally significant than the decline in lean body mass. […] Think of the implication of this decrease in lean body mass in respect to the physical behavior of elderly subjects. There may be...1989, Irwin H. Rosenberg, “Summary comments”, in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, volume 50, number 5, →DOI, pages 1231-1233

Forms of sarcopaenia

pluralsarcopaenias

Questions about sarcopaenia

What is sarcopaenia the alternative form of?
Sarcopaenia is the alternative form of sarcopenia.

Words near sarcopaenia in the dictionary

  1. sarcometric
  2. sarconecrophagous
  3. sarconecrophagy
  4. sarconet
  5. sarconets
  6. sarcopaenia
  7. sarcopaenias
  8. sarcopenia
  9. sarcopenias
  10. sarcopenic
  11. sarcophagal

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