sarcopenia
sarcopenia noun: gradual loss of skeletal muscle due to aging, immobility, illness, or combinations thereof.
Noun
sarcopenia (usually uncountable, plural sarcopenias)
- 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
- Factors contributing to frailty include sarcopenia and decline in executive function.2008, Wilbert S. Aronow, Jerome L. Fleg, Michael W. Rich, Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly, 4th edition, Taylor & Francis, page 814
Forms of sarcopenia
| plural | sarcopenias |
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Origin of sarcopenia
From sarco- + -penia; widely agreed to have been coined circa 1989 by Irwin H. Rosenberg.
Words formed from sarcopenia
Questions about sarcopenia
- What does sarcopenia mean?
- Sarcopenia means gradual loss of skeletal muscle due to aging, immobility, illness, or combinations thereof.
- What part of speech is sarcopenia?
- Sarcopenia is a noun.
- What is the plural of sarcopenia?
- The plural of sarcopenia is sarcopenias.
Words near sarcopenia in the dictionary
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