Wasting: alternatives and connections

The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor.

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The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.

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Frailty.

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The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or se…

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The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infir…

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Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease…

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The condition of a valetudinarian; a state of feeble health; infirmity.

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Progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms.

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To make lean; to cause to waste away.

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To make lean; to cause to waste away.

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A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.

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Alt. of Cachexy

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A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or…

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