Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cachexia

1 sense of cachexia

Sense 1
cachexia, cachexy, wasting -- (any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease)
       => infirmity, frailty, debility, feebleness, frailness, valetudinarianism -- (the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age))