cachexia

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• Received-Pronunciation: /kəˈkɛksɪə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /kæˈkɛksɪə/
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• General-American: /kəˈkɛksiə/
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From Late Latin cachexia or French cachexie, from Ancient Greek καχεξία (kakhexía), from κακός (kakós, “bad; injurious”) + ἕξῐς (héxĭs, “act of having; habit or state of body”) (ultimately from ἔχω (ékhō, “to have”)) + -ῐᾰ (-ĭă, suffix added to adjectives to form abstract nouns).

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: متلازمة الهزال — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Armenian: հյուծանք (hyucankʻ) — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Catalan: caquèxia — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Chinese Mandarin: 惡病質 /恶病质 (èbìngzhì, èbìngzhí) — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Wu Chinese: 惡病質 /恶病质 — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Czech: cachexie — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Czech: kachexie — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Czech: kachektizace — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Danish: kakeksi — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Dutch: cachexie — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Esperanto: kaĥeksio — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Finnish: kakeksia — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• French: cachexie — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Georgian: კაქექსია (ḳakeksia) — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Georgian: კახექსია (ḳaxeksia) — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• German: Kachexie — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Greek: καχεξία (kachexía) — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Ancient Greek: καχεξία (kakhexía) — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Hungarian: kachexia — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Hungarian: senyvesség — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Ido: kakexio — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Italian: cachessia — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Japanese: 悪液質 — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Kazakh: кахексия (kaxeksiä) — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Kazakh: азып ауру (azyp auru) — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Kyrgyz: кахексия (kaheksiya) — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Lithuanian: kacheksija — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kakesi — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Persian: نزاری — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Polish: kacheksja — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Polish: charłactwo — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Polish: wyniszczenie — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Portuguese: caquexia — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Quechua: amaychura — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Romanian: cașexie — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Russian: кахекси́я (kaxeksíja) — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Slovak: kachexia — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Slovene: kaheksíja — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Spanish: caquexia — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Swedish: kakeksi — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Tagalog: pamamayat — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Thai: ภาวะผอมหนังหุ้มกระดูก — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Turkish: kaşeksi — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease
• Ukrainian: кахексія (kaxeksija) — systemic wasting of muscle tissue that accompanies a chronic disease