sarcopenia

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• sarcopenic
• osteosarcopenia

Translations

gradual age-related loss of skeletal muscle

• Dutch: spierverlies n, sarcopenia f, sarcopenie (nl) f
• Finnish: sarkopenia
• French: sarcopénie (fr) f
• Latin: sarcopenia f
• Polish: sarkopenia (pl) f
• Spanish: sarcopenia (es) f

See also

• cachexia
• wasting

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20070321202655/http://www.wordspy.com/words/sarcopenia.asp
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17052879&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum

Anagrams

• paranoeics, paranœics

Dutch

Noun

sarcopenia f (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of sarcopenie

Spanish

Noun

sarcopenia f (plural sarcopenias)

1. sarcopenia