adynamia
noun
loss of vital power or strength, esp as the result of illness; weakness or debility
adynamic
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a word derived from
adynamia.
Example Sentences
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If during this process negative electrons hold the preponderance in the body, the fever is of a feeble, adynamic type.
From Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration by Louis Dechmann
In both cases the fever soon assumed an adynamic character.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
It subjects the body to more abundant disorders, and especially to those of the depressive, adynamic type, which, from the want of the usual recuperative power, are more fatal than the diseases of civil life.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various
But veterinary pathology is still less understood than human pathology, and typhoid fever may perhaps be recognised in those diseases which the former science has described under the names of adynamic and ataxic fevers.
From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honor? Bourguignon
A sudden or rapidly developed attack is generally unfavorable, especially when the symptoms are adynamic and there is a purplish discoloration of the skin.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
