cachexia

(kS-kek'sI-ah) [G. kakos, bad, hex is, a habit of body.] general lack of nutrition and wasting occurring in the course of a chronic disease. African c, earth-eating, c. aphtho'sa, sprue (2). c. aquo'sa, an edematous form of uncinariasis, c. hypophys"eopri'va, a condition following total removal of the hypophysis cerebri, marked by a fall of body temperature, awkwardne -in gait with irregular muscular contractions similar to those of tetany, followed by coma and death, c. strumipri'va, c. thyreopriva. c. thyreoid'ea, myxedema, c. thyreopri'va, myxedematous symptoms resulting from the rernoval of the thyroid gland, c. thyroid'ea, c. thyreoidea. lymph at'ic c, Hodgkin's disease, mala'rial u., chronic malaria, a condition developing after repeated attacks of intermittent or remittent fever or affecting residents in malarious regions who may have had no distinct paroxysms of chills and fever. The subjects are anemic, emaciated, and cachetic looking, with sallow complexion, edema of the ankles, feeble digestion, enlarged spleen, muscular weakne , and mental depre ion. mercu'rial c, chronic mercurial poisoning. ne'gro c, African t., dirt-eating, sat'urnine c, chronic lead poisoning, splen'ic c, pernicious anemia with enlargement of the spleen, u'rinary u., the constitutional disturbance accompanying suppuration along the urinary tract.