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(wāst )

[L. vastus, empty, desolate]
SEE: 1. Cachexia.
2. Loss by breaking down of bodily tissue.
3. Excreted material no longer useful to an organism.

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Venes, Donald, editor. "Waste." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 23rd ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2017. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/749282/all/waste.
Waste. In: Venes D, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. 23rd ed. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/749282/all/waste. Accessed July 16, 2019.
Waste. (2017). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary. Available from https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/749282/all/waste
Waste [Internet]. In: Venes D, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. [cited 2019 July 16]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/749282/all/waste.
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