Meanings (ES + gloss)
caquexia
A systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies a chronic disease.
If we have hitherto no approach to a physiological expression for those autopathic cachexiæ in which gout, scrofula, and cancer respectively originate, let it be observed that our…
[T]he intimate nature of cachexia is a deterioration in the qualities of blood, a favourite doctrine with the humoral pathologists, in support of which many very powerful arguments…
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