sarcopenia

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx, flesh) +‎ πενῐ́ᾱ (peníā, poverty, want).

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sarcopenia (usually uncountable, plural sarcopenias)

  1. (pathology) Gradual loss of skeletal muscle due to aging, immobility, illness, or combinations thereof.
    • 2008, Wilbert S. Aronow, Jerome L. Fleg, Michael W. Rich, Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly, 4th edition, Taylor & Francis, page 814:
      Factors contributing to frailty include sarcopenia and decline in executive function.
    • 2021, Beatrice Gasperini, Stefano Volpato, Antonio Cherubini, Chapter 9: Acute Sarcopenia, Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft, John E. Morley (editors), Sarcopenia, John Wiley & Sons (Wiley Blackwell), 2nd Edition, page 96,
      The incidence of sarcopenia was investigated in the GLISTEN study. Sarcopenia at hospital admission was diagnosed in 227 (34.7%) patients.
    • 2022, Jeffrey B. HalterJoseph G. OuslanderStephanie Studenskiet al., Hazzard's Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, 8th edition, McGraw Hill, page 736:
      When no evident cause of gradual-onset chronic sarcopenia is present in an older person, age-associated (primary) sarcopenia is diagnosed, and further examination of long-term habits that may have led to sarcopenia is appropriate.

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Noun

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sarcopenia f (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of sarcopenie

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sarcopenia f (plural sarcopenias)

  1. sarcopenia