wasting disease
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7.3
- noun
- /ˈweɪstɪŋ dɪˈziːz/
- Specialized
:
enfermedad de desgaste
- Chronic wasting disease causes deer to lose weight and become weak, making it difficult for them to survive.
- chronic wasting disease
So it's a muscle wasting disease involving degeneration of the neurons that innervate those muscles.
- So it's a muscle wasting disease involving degeneration of the neurons that innervate those muscles.
Examples
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Now they live at home, struggling to support an elderly grandmother, who suffers from some mysterious wasting disease.
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Even in the rosy glow of the flames, he looked gaunt and ill, like someone suffering from a wasting disease.
Fiction book (2000) -
In most places, when you get chronic wasting disease, you have it forever.
Blog text (4) -
And when piglets get this virus, do they die from a wasting disease?
Blog text (12) -
Now, with wasting disease such a threat, educating hunters and others has never been so important.
Blog text (15) -
Her face was sharp, and her skin looked hollow, as if her insides had been dissolved by a wasting disease.
Fiction book (2001) -
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a TSE of deer and elk.
Academic text (2004) -
Researchers are studying chronic wasting disease to understand how it affects deer populations in the wild.
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He was diagnosed with a wasting disease that gradually reduced his strength and energy levels over time.
Synonyms
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9.9
A lung disease that slowly makes the body thin and weak
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9.3
A disease passed from parents that makes muscles get weak and waste away
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9.9
A lung disease that makes the body thin and often causes death
A lung disease that slowly makes the body thin and weak
Antonyms
How Debilitating
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a disease that causes loss of weight/strength' is directly and transparently composed from 'wasting' (loss of body tissue/strength) + 'disease' (a medical condition). This descriptive, compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard noun + noun modification, so a B1 learner who knows both words should be able to infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun wasting disease comes from the picture of the body slowly wasting away from illness, like someone losing weight and strength bit by bit. That's why it means 'a disease that causes gradual loss of weight, strength, and vitality'.