wasting

Basic Information

Description
A nutrition, metabolism, and development symptom that is characterized by the unintended loss of weight and lean body tissue characteristic of many diseases (as cancer, tuberculosis, and AIDS).
Identifier
SYMP_0000174
Notation
SYMP:0000174
Category
symptoms

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