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What does cachectic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Having cachexia; wasting away from a disease or chronic illness.
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Hmaturia sometimes occurs, especially in broken-down and cachectic subjects and in an advanced stage of scurvy.
Physical examination showed an acutely ill cachectic man, who was tachypneic and dyspneic.
Toward the last, cachectic oedema about the ankles can often be recognized.
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.
Circulating concentrations of the cytokine tumour necrosis factor are increased in cachectic patients with chronic heart failure.

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