Physical wasting with loss of weight and muscle mass caused
by disease. Patients with advanced cancer, AIDS, and some other major chronic progressive
diseases may appear cachectic. Cachexia is a wasting syndrome that causes weakness
and a loss of weight, fat, and muscle. Anorexia (lack of apppetite) and cachexia
often occur together. Cachexia can occur in people who are eating enough, but who
cannot absorb the nutrients. Cachexia is not the same as starvation. A healthy person's
body can adjust to starvation by slowing down its use of nutrients, but in cachectic
patients, the body does not make this adjustment.
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