| Vomiting and dyspepsia, if uncontrolled by regulation of the diet, lead to a cachectic state which often ends in death. |
| She has the cachectic facies of a painting of a Victorian consumptive, Munch's Sick Child, perhaps. |
| Toward the last, cachectic oedema about the ankles can often be recognized. |
| Circulating concentrations of the cytokine tumour necrosis factor are increased in cachectic patients with chronic heart failure. |
| On exam, the patient was pale, cold, markedly cachectic, and severely volume depleted. |
| A moderate degree of cachectic dropsy is not very infrequent in the late stages of gastric ulcer. |
