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General ill health, malnutrition, and weight loss, usually associated with chronic disease.
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Cachexia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D002100. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D002100
- Cachexia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia
- Cachexia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6003455