neurasthenia
Psychiatry. (not in technical use) nervous debility and exhaustion occurring in the absence of objective causes or lesions; nervous exhaustion.
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How to use neurasthenia in a sentence
They often appear in digestive disturbances, in neurasthenia, and when the oxidizing power of the system is diminished.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddPhysical, intellectual, or emotional strain can cause neurasthenia suddenly or gradually.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyThe walking may simulate paralytic forms if hysteria is mixed with the neurasthenia.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyNagging never cured anything except a tendency toward virtue, and it always deepens neurasthenia.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyThere is always a causative shock or injury, which is followed at once or after an interval by the symptoms of neurasthenia.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin Malley
British Dictionary definitions for neurasthenia
/ (ˌnjʊərəsˈθiːnɪə) /
an obsolete technical term for a neurosis characterized by extreme lassitude and inability to cope with any but the most trivial tasks
Derived forms of neurasthenia
- neurasthenic (ˌnjʊərəsˈθɛnɪk), adjective
- neurasthenically, adverb
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