Cachexia

Introduction: Cachexia

Description of Cachexia

Cachexia: A condition of general poor health involving weakness and a gaunt appearance usually resulting from severe diseases such as cancer.

Cachexia: Loss of body weight and muscle mass, and weakness that may occur in patients with cancer, AIDS, or other chronic diseases.
Source: National Institute of Health

Cachexia: any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease.
Source: WordNet 2.1

Cachexia: state of general ill health characterized by malnutrition, weakness, and emaciation; occurs during the course of a chronic disease.
Source: Diseases Database

Cachexia: state of general ill health characterized by malnutrition, weakness, and emaciation; occurs during the course of a chronic disease.
Source: CRISP

Cachexia: General ill health, malnutrition, and weight loss, usually associated with chronic disease.
Source: MeSH 2007

Cachexia: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Cachexia:

• Weight
• Weight symptoms (2043 causes)
• Loss
• Wasting (351 causes)
• Wasting disease
• Wasting syndrome
• Emotional (2080 causes)
• Emotional symptoms (2080 causes)
• Emotional disease

Cachexia as a Symptom

Cachexia (symptom): physical wasting with loss of weight and muscle mass...more »

Cachexia (symptom): See Cachexia (symptom information).

More information on symptom: Cachexia:

• Cachexia

Terms associated with Cachexia:

Terms Similar to Cachexia:

• Wasting syndrome

Source: Diseases Database

• cachexy
• wasting

Source - WordNet 2.1

Related Topics

• HIV Wasting Syndrome
• Wasting Syndrome

Source - MeSH 2007

Broader terms for Cachexia

• Emaciation

Source - MeSH 2007

• sign /symptom

Source - CRISP

• infirmity
• frailty
• debility
• feebleness
• frailness

Source - WordNet 2.1

The term Cachexia can be used for:

• AIDS wasting syndrome

Source: CRISP

Other terms that may be related to Cachexia:

• malnutrition
• tumor necrosis factor alpha

Source: CRISP

Hierarchical classifications of Cachexia

The following list attempts to classify Cachexia into categories where each line is subset of the next.

WordNet 2.1

• debility,feebleness,frailness,frailty,infirmity
• bad condition,poor shape,unfitness
• health problem,ill health,unhealthiness
• pathological state
• condition,status
• state

Source: WordNet 2.1

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy:

• Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms
  • Signs and Symptoms
    • Body Weight
      • Body Weight Changes
        • Weight Loss
          • Emaciation
            • Cachexia

Disease Ontology - OBO (Open Biomedical Ontologies)

• Other ill-defined and unknown causes of morbidity and mortality
• ILL-DEFINED AND UNKNOWN CAUSES OF MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY
• SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, AND ILL-DEFINED CONDITIONS
• DISEASES AND INJURIES
• Disease Ontology V2.1 2005

External links related to: Cachexia

• Dietary advice for illness-related malnutrition in adults (Cochrane Review)

Source: Diseases Database

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