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What does cachexy mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) Cachexia.
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On the 10th day following injection of 5 × 106 HT-29 cells, one animal had to be sacrificed due to severe tumor cachexy and swollen abdomen.
The child died aged 15 years in extreme cachexy.
With some people the spleen increases in volume through the action of this humour, as a result of which cachexy and dropsies ensue.
Mice were sacrificed at 30 days post-injection or earlier if tumor related cachexy or hepatic failure with tumor related ascites occurred.
In the majority of animals, severe tumor disease with cachexy and swollen abdomen was seen between the 10th and 20th day after injection, none of these animals, as mentioned above, survived to term.

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