An alternative or archaic form of cachexia; severe wasting and physical deterioration from serious illness.
A variant spelling of 'cachexia,' from Greek 'kakos' (bad) and 'hexis' (condition). This shorter form was sometimes used in older English medical texts but has largely been replaced by the standard 'cachexia' spelling in modern usage.
This older spelling of cachexia shows how medical terminology has been standardized over time—doctors used to write 'cachexy' and 'cachexia' interchangeably until the medical field settled on one standard term.
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