wasting syndrome
Chronic consumptive deterioration
Wasting syndrome is severe, progressive loss of body weight and muscle mass, typically associated with chronic illness.
The term appears most often in connection with AIDS, where it was among the defining conditions of advanced disease: He was diagnosed with AIDS wasting syndrome after losing thirty pounds.
Cancer, tuberculosis, and other diseases can produce similar wasting.
- catabolismMetabolic molecular dismantling
- cachexiaSevere illness-induced wasting
- weight lossReduction in body mass
- cancerUncontrolled cell proliferation disease
- terminal illnessIncurable, deadly medical condition
losing weight · protein deficiency · tuberculosis · malnutrition · inflammation · muscle atrophy · anorexia · muscle wasting · frailty · fatigue · HIV/AIDS · weakness · skin and bones · congestive heart failure · withering · emaciation · debilitation · palliative care
- body disordersobesity, overweight, underweight, malnutrition, anorexia
- HIV/AIDSHIV, AIDS, AIDS crisis, AIDS quilt, antiretrovirals
- malnutritionmalnutrition, malnourished, undernourished, undernourishment, starvation
- deer ailmentsbrainworm, prion disease, lungworm, lungworms, liver fluke
- wasting diseasescachexia, emaciation, consumption, phthisis, failure to thrive
- Fatal Diseasespancreatic cancer, glioblastoma, ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease, metastatic cancer
wasting syndromeobesity
Excess body fat condition
morbid obesity · weight gain · hypertrophy · adiposity · bulking
wasting syndromeanabolism
Metabolic construction of molecules
protein synthesis · hypertrophy · lipogenesis · tissue regeneration · weight gain
wasting syndromethriving
Succeeding vigorously
flourishing · robust health · vitality · vigor · wellness