Cachexia [noun]

He was of that peculiar temperament which indicates a scrofulous cachexia.

The Cachexia Africana, like other spanœmic states of the system, may run into Phthisis, or become complicated with it.

The enlarged spleen of repeated agues, or of the malarial cachexia, is commonly known as the ague-cake.

Malaria, if severe, may interrupt gestation through fever or cachexia.

Clinically it is recognized by the occurrence after pregnancy of violent haemorrhages, progressive cachexia and fever with rigors.

The symptoms which induce women to seek medical aid are haemorrhage, foetid discharge, and later pain and cachexia.

It produces anæmia and cachexia in animals when given in small repeated doses.

There exists in some individuals a predisposition to "catching cold," independent of any cachexia.

Other causes of this symptom are coincident diseases of the liver, kidney, or the malarial cachexia.

Death may result from the debility resulting from the cancerous cachexia or from intestinal occlusion or from peritonitis.