CACHEXIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cachexia mean? 

• CACHEXIA (noun)
  The noun CACHEXIA has 1 sense:

1. any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease

  Familiarity information: CACHEXIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CACHEXIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cachexia; cachexy; wasting

Hypernyms ("cachexia" is a kind of...):

debility; feebleness; frailness; frailty; infirmity; valetudinarianism (the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age))

Derivation:

cachectic (relating to or having the symptoms of cachexia)

 Context examples 

A substance that has been studied as a treatment for cancer and as a treatment for cachexia (body wasting) associated with advanced cancer.

(Hydrazine sulfate, NCI Dictionary)

A ghrelin peptide analogue with potential anti-cachexia activity.

(Ghrelin Peptide Analogue, NCI Thesaurus)

Formoterol appears to antagonize cachexia by reducing proteolysis mediated through the ubiquitin-protease pathway.

(Formoterol Fumarate/Roxithromycin, NCI Thesaurus)

A monoclonal antibody against myostatin (MSTN) with potential anti-cachexia activity.

(Anti-myostatin Monoclonal Antibody LY2495655, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent has been reported to decrease the excessive energy needs and cachexia of cancer patients.

(Hydrazine sulfate, NCI Thesaurus)

An orally bioavailable leucine enriched essential amino acid dietary supplement with potential anti-cachexia activity.

(Leucine-Enhanced Essential Amino Acid Dietary Supplement, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent has potential use for treating cancer pain and cachexia.

(Marijuana, NCI Thesaurus)

Marijuana may help treat the symptoms of cancer or the side effects of cancer treatment, such as nausea and vomiting, pain, and cachexia (loss of body weight and muscle mass).

(Marijuana, NCI Dictionary)

An orally available synthetic mimetic of the growth hormone (GH) secretagogue ghrelin with potential anti-cachexia activity.

(Macimorelin, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition to formoterol's bronchodilating activity, formoterol exhibits anti-cachexia activity through the inhibition of the ATP-ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic system, which may result in a decrease in protein degradation and muscle cell apoptosis.

(Formoterol Fumarate Oral, NCI Thesaurus)