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sarcopenias

sarcopenias is the plural 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

Questions about sarcopenias

What is sarcopenias the plural of?
Sarcopenias is the plural of sarcopenia.

Words near sarcopenias in the dictionary

  1. sarconet
  2. sarconets
  3. sarcopaenia
  4. sarcopaenias
  5. sarcopenia
  6. sarcopenias
  7. sarcopenic
  8. sarcophagal
  9. sarcophagan
  10. sarcophagans
  11. sarcophagi

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