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Wasting

Wasting Meaning & Definition
Wasting Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Wasting?

[n] a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
[n] any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease

Synonyms | Synonyms for Wasting: atrophy | cachexia | cachexy | wasting away

Related Terms | Find terms related to Wasting:

See Also | amyotrophia | amyotrophy | debility | feebleness | frailness | frailty | infirmity | kraurosis | symptom | tabes

Wasting In Webster's Dictionary

\Wast"ing\, a. Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. {Wasting palsy} (Med.), progressive muscular atrophy. See under {Progressive}.

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