Dense, crunchy, intended for medical professionals (I learned two new words -- "cachectic" and "hemoptysis" -- and my medical Latin is pretty darned good for a non-doctor), and full of the usual assortment of incredibly gross but illustrative scene photos.    From Wordnik.com.  [you got to lift up every stone now sister] Reference

He had been in poor health for a number of years, and was then in a very cachectic condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Electric Bath] Reference

But this response is hardly universal; only some patients become cachectic, and only at certain points in their treatment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keith I. Block, M.D.: How Diet Affects Cancer] Reference

As he was not cachectic and no apparent ganglion was found, and as his thoracic respiration was perfect, it seemed to be indicated that an incision should be made in his stomach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888] Reference

Instances, indeed, are not unknown of persons who in consequence of a cachectic state have secreted sweat that resembled blood, their body having become loose and flabby, and their blood watery, owing to the heat in the small vessels having been too scanty for its concoction.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Parts of Animals] Reference

No hectic heat of skin, but an extraordinary depression of the arterial action, arising evidently from the redundancy of carbon deposited in the pulmonary tissue, preventing the proper oxygenation of the blood circulating in the organs, and thereby producing a morbid effect on the whole system, which sufficiently explains the cachectic condition of the body.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners] Reference

♦ Client with chronic heart failure may appear malnourished, thin and cachectic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The syndrome -- called supplement-associated hyperammonemia after cachectic episode (SHAKE) -- appears to cause difficulty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

Shecut, in his Flora Carol., speaks of its great reputation as an effectual remedy in cachectic cases, in weakness of stomach, and fixed rheumatic pains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

Thus, in conditions of debility from any cause which diminishes the vital powers, as bad food, impure air, cachectic states of the organism, scrofula, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference

Page 16 dropsy of the abdomen and cellular membrane; diseases of the heart -- of the intestines -- of the liver; dyspepsia, and a host of nervous, cachectic and cutaneous diseases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on the Utility of Temperance Societies. Lecture I. On Intemperance as a National Evil. Lecture II. On Intemperance as a Source of Disease. Lecture III. On Temperance Societies] Reference

The authors report that the median time to maximum fentanyl concentration in subjects naive to fentanyl was 48 hours in cachectic patients compared to 24 hours in normal weight patients.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pallimed: A Hospice & Palliative Medicine Blog] Reference

I'm okay with a conclusion that cachexia may impair fentanyl absorption, but not okay with concluding that fentanyl is not the opioid of choice for cachectic patients, at least on the basis of this study.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pallimed: A Hospice & Palliative Medicine Blog] Reference

Miss Letty was altogether too wholesome, hearty, and high-strung a young girl to be a model, according to the flat-chested and cachectic pattern which is the classical type of certain excellent young females, often the subjects of biographical memoirs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elsie Venner] Reference

In China they drink an infusion of the root instead of tea, and it is well known that they have recourse to it as a last resort in all diseases: Dr. James says, more especially in all cachectic and consumptive cases, and in those arising from debility of any kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

Mr. Bradshaw expected naturally to see a youth of imperfect constitution, and cachectic or dyspeptic tendencies, who was in training to furnish one of those biographies beginning with the statement that, from his infancy, the subject of it showed no inclination for boyish amusements, and so on, until he dies out, for the simple reason that there was not enough of him to live.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian Angel] Reference

He looked pretty cachectic to me, and I didn’t want him dehydrating, especially if there is some internal hemorrhaging.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Edge] Reference

(which looked at fentanyl concentrations closely, but not very closely at more appropriate outcomes such as VAS scores and breakthrough opioid needs) that fentanyl TD is a second-class opioid in cachectic patients.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pallimed: A Hospice & Palliative Medicine Blog] Reference

We use a medical term: cachectic.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2001] Reference

(Not to be confused with the question, "Is transdermal fentanyl less effective in cachectic patients?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pallimed: A Hospice & Palliative Medicine Blog] Reference