cachexia

(kak-eks’e-ah) (Gr. xaxés ill + és habit]. A profound and marked state of constitutional disorder; general ill health and malnutrition. African c., negro c., chthonophagia, or geophagia; earth-eating. c. aquo’sa, Griesinger's disease. See disease. cancerous c., the weak, emaciated condition seen in cases of malignant tumor. c. exophthal’mica. Same as goiter, exophthalmic. c. hypophyseopri’va, the train of symptoms resulting from total removal of the pituitary body. lymphatic c. See pseudo leukemia. c., chronic malaria. c. mercuria’lis, chronic mercurial poisoning. pachyder’mic c. See myxedema. saturnine ©., the condition seen in chronic lead-poisoning. c. splen’ica, splenic c., enlargement of the spleen with progre ive anemia. ¢. strumipri’- va, myxedema caused by removal of the thyroid. strumous c., scrofula. ¢. thy reo i dec tom’- c. thyreopri’va. Same as c. strumiprica. ie cia c., exophthalmic goiter. tropical c., a general condition of ill health affecting residents in the tropics, frequently a ociated with disease of the liver or spleen. c., the cachectic condition seen in chronic suppurative disease of the kidney. It is marked by dyspepsia, lo of appetite, flatulence, tympanites, diarrhea, weakne , and mental depre ion, verminous c., the condition of anemia and debility which accompanies infection with worms, especially ankylostoma.