Asthenia

Word ASTHENIA
Character 8
Hyphenation as the ni a
Pronunciations /æsˈθiː.nɪə/

Definitions and meanings of "Asthenia"

What do we mean by asthenia?

Loss or lack of bodily strength; weakness; debility. noun

In pathology, debility; want of strength. Also astheny. noun

capitalized In zoology, a genus of insects. noun

Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital forces. noun

Weakness; loss of strength noun

An abnormal loss of strength noun

Weakness; loss of strength.

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The word "asthenia" in example sentences

One day post vaccination the patient developed asthenia, headache and sleepiness which improved the following day. ❋ Shelley Ross (2011)

GUILLAIN-BARRE syndrome, asthenia, headache, sleepiness and pericardial effusion were reported as other important medical event. ❋ Shelley Ross (2011)

He died at the age of thirty-two from “asthenia from pneumonia,” probably as a secondary result of sickle cell disease. ❋ Michael J. Behe (2007)

You -- you kind of worry that some measure of diffidence, or lack of interest, sets in, you know, kind of political asthenia. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Evaluation of the efficacy of a standardized ginseng extract in patients with psychophysical asthenia and neurological disorders. ❋ Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier (2000)

The patient died four years after manifesting symptoms of a general asthenia. ❋ Gerald N. Grob (1994)

He assumed that the interaction between the excitability with which the body was endowed and the stimuli, external and internal, which it encountered during life determined health and the contrasting conditions of asthenia and sthenia. ❋ OWSEI TEMKIN (1968)

Toward the end of October, his asthenia had diminished enough to allow him to play the piano weakly in three octaves. ❋ Stephen French Whitman (N/A)

"Cardiac asthenia -- heart failure," said Dr. Upton, abruptly. ❋ Harriet Stark (N/A)

Where we meet with atonic conditions however, with debility, malnutrition, want of energy or general asthenia of an obscure nature, and amenable to electric influence, the tonic effects of the baths become striking and brilliant. ❋ George M. Schweig (N/A)

In others there was no change whatever, and in a few there was an absolute diminution in frequency; this last I believe however to be a therapeutic rather than physiological effect, manifesting itself only where there is pneumogastric asthenia, and attributable directly to electric stimulation of this nerve. ❋ George M. Schweig (N/A)

Lieut. Greely's disease is called by the surgeon asthenia, a diminution of the vital forces. ❋ Various (N/A)

The boy under the measuring bar, in the foreground, and the three immediately to the left of the desk, are examples of congenital asthenia and poor physique; two of the four were found to be dull mentally. ❋ Paul Popenoe (1933)

As well as visual Asthenia, the following terms might be considered as applicable: collaborative centre asthenia; imaginative centre asthenia; visual creative centre asthenia; picture producing centre asthenia. ❋ Unknown (1916)

This diminution of energy is evidenced by muscular and mental weakness, by diminished response and by gradual loss of efficiency which finally reaches the state of asthenia. ❋ Unknown (1915)

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