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单词 cachexy
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cachexyn.

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Forms: Also 1600s cacexy, cacexie, cachexe, cachexie, cakexy; and in modern Latin form caˈchexia, (1700s cacexia).
Etymology: < modern Latin cachexia or French cachexie (16th cent. in Paré), < Greek καχεξία, < κακός bad + -ἑξια = ἕξις habit or state, < ἔχειν to have, have oneself, be in condition. Walker accents /ˈkækɛksɪ/ which is according to English analogies; but modern dictionaries have mostly /kəˈkɛksɪ/.
a. ‘A depraved condition of the body, in which nutrition is everywhere defective.’ New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered nutrition > [noun] > malnutrition
cachexy?1541
marasmus1574
innutrition1796
denourishment1850
malnutrition1850
denutrition1868
athrepsia1885
malnourishment1921
?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Diij, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens The euyll habytude of the body (whiche the Grekes call Cachexie).
1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. div The dysease which the phisicians caule Cachexia.
1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours iv. xii. 262 Who can in a Cachexie draw all the vitious humours out of the body at once.
1775 E. Barry Observ. Wines Ancients 417 Liable to..cachexies..etc.
1843 A. Bethune Sc. Peasant's Fire-side 65 Affected with fevers and cachexy.
b. A depraved habit of mind or feeling.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > instance of corruption > [noun]
unthewc897
lastOE
vicea1300
misthewa1325
fault1377
mistetch?c1450
depravity1641
vitiosity1643
cachexy1652
misteach1803
vileness1863
unvirtue1869
1652 L. S. Natures Dowrie xvi. 40 The Israelites desiring a King..out of a Cacexie and evill frame of spirit.
1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh Ep. Ded. 5 I see..a cakexy of evill life amongst you.
1843 F. E. Paget Warden of Berkingholt 161 He would think that a cachexy of chattering had become epidemic among the clergy of the nineteenth century.
1868 Symonds in Fortn. Rev. Dec. IV. 602 Both poets [Clough and De Musset] describe the maladie du siècle, the nondescript cachexy, in which aspiration mingles with disenchantment, satire and scepticism with a childlike desire for the tranquillity of reverence and belief.
c. Said of a body politic.
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1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 187 Her high repletion brought her [the City] into a Cachexy.
1883 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 33 Ireland..lies fretful and wrathful under a grim social cachexy of distressful centuries.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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