adynamia
- obsolete loss of vital power or strength, esp as the result of illness; weakness or debility
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Word Origin
C19: New Latin, from a- 1 + -dynamia, from Greek dunamis strength, force
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At this stage of the disease, in which adynamia predominates, everything must tend to support the organism.
Again, the adynamia of malarial attacks is generally ascribable to some cause not essential to those affections.
adynamia
(ā′dī-năm′ēə, ăd′ə-nā′mē-ə)- Loss of strength or vigor, usually because of disease.
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