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CachecticHaving cachexia, physical wasting with loss of weight and muscle mass due to disease. Patients with advanced cancer, AIDS, severe heart failure and some other major chronic progressive diseases may appear cachectic.
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Cachectic1630s, from Latinized form of Greek kakhektikos "in a bad habit of body" (see cachexia).
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Cachectic(adj) relating to or having the symptoms of cachexia
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Cachectic
Having cachexia; wasting away from a disease or chronic illness.
* '''1982''', TC Boyle, ''Water Music'', Penguin 2006, p. 44:
*: His horse has been restored to him (cachectic as ever, looking lik [..]
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