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sarcopenia

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Gradual loss of skeletal muscle due to aging, immobility, illness, or combinations thereof.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

Examples

  • 2021, Beatrice Gasperini, Stefano Volpato, Antonio Cherubini, Chapter 9: Acute Sarcopenia, Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft, John E. Morley (editors), Sarcopenia, John Wiley & Sons (Wiley Blackwell), 2nd Edition, page 96, The incidence of sarcopenia was investigated in the GLISTEN study. Sarcopenia at hospital admission was diagnosed in 227 (34.7%) patients.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: wasting

History

Etymology

From sarco- + -penia; widely agreed to have been coined circa 1989 by Irwin H. Rosenberg.

Across languages

Translations

9 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Dutch: spierverlies — gradual age-related loss of skeletal muscle
  • Dutch: sarcopenia — gradual age-related loss of skeletal muscle
  • Dutch: sarcopenie — gradual age-related loss of skeletal muscle
  • Finnish: sarkopenia — gradual age-related loss of skeletal muscle
  • French: sarcopénie — gradual age-related loss of skeletal muscle
  • Northern Kurdish: sarkopenî — gradual age-related loss of skeletal muscle
  • Latin: sarcopenia — gradual age-related loss of skeletal muscle
  • Polish: sarkopenia — gradual age-related loss of skeletal muscle
  • Spanish: sarcopenia — gradual age-related loss of skeletal muscle