| Pronunciation: | | 'weysting
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| Matching Terms: | | wasting away, wasting disease, wasting time
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | atrophy, cachexia, cachexy, wasting away |
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| | See Also: | | amyotrophia, amyotrophy, debility, feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity, kraurosis, symptom, tabes |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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