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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cachexia /kəˈkɛksɪə/

▶noun Medicine weakness and wasting of the body due to severe chronic illness.

– origin C16: via late L. from Gk kakhexia, from kakos ‘bad’ + hexis ‘habit’.

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