• (RP) IPA: /kəˈkɛksɪə/
• (GA) IPA: /kəˈkɛksiə/

cachexia

1. (pathology) A systemic wasting#Noun|wasting of muscle#Noun|muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass#Noun|mass, that accompanies a chronic disease. [from mid 16th c.]

   Synonyms: cachexy

   • 1652, Nich[olas] Culpeper, “Succory”, in The English Physitian: Or An Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation. […], London: Printed by Peter Cole, […], OCLC 863539962 ↗, [https://archive.org/details/b30335310/page/Καχεξία}}, Cachexia./mode/1up pages 223–224]:

     An handful of the Leavs or Roots [of garden succory] boyled in Wine or Water, and a draught thereof drunk faſting, […] helpeth the yellow Jaundice, the Heat of the Reins and of the Urin, and the Dropſie also, and thoſe that have an evil Diſpoſition in their Bodies by reaſon of long ſickneſs, evil Diet &c., which the Greeks call {{lang

• French: cachexie
• German: Kachexie
• Italian: cachessia
• Portuguese: caquexia
• Russian: кахекси́я
• Spanish: caquexia