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Cachexia
Cachexia is also known as cachexy. Cachexia comes from the Greek word "kakos" meaning "bad," and the Greek word "hexis" meaning "state." Put the two words together and you have "bad state."
An appearance of serious illness, poor nutrition, weakness, massive weight loss, and wasting away, usually due to severe starvation, an emotional disorder, or a serious long-term and/or reoccurring disease, such as cancer. Cancer is a group of diseases in which symptoms are due to an abnormal and excessive growth of cells in one of the body organs or tissues. A cell is the smallest, most basic unit of life, that is capable of existing by itself.
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