| 单词 |
cachectic |
| 释义 |
cachectic, a.|kəˈkɛktɪk| Also 7–8 -ick. [Ultimately ad. Gr. καχεκτικ-ός in a bad habit of body. Cf. cachexy. Cachectique occurs in F. in 16th c.; mod.L. cachecticus is prob. still earlier.] Of or pertaining to cachexy; affected with or characterized by cachexy or a bad state of body.
1634T. Johnson tr. Parey's Chirurg. xx. vii. (1678) 461 A melancholick cachectick disposition of the whole body. 1744Berkeley Siris §94 The good effect of this medicine on cachectic and scorbutic persons. 1861O. W. Holmes Elsie V. 210 The flat-chested and cachectic pattern which is the classical type of certain excellent young females. |

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