Physical condition of extreme weakness, consequence of another pathology. It is a word of Greek origin formed by 954; 945; 954; 959; 962; ( kakós "bad") 949; 958; 953; 945; ( exía "state" ) .
cachexia: pathology that occurs as a marked deterioration of nutrition in the individual by the action of various 40 diseases; tuberculosis-cancer - infections-)
Cachexia can also be one of the symptoms that occurs in a psychosomatic disorder of nutritive function, thinning is such that can reach the point of cachexia.