asthenia
[as-thee-nee-uh]
- lack or loss of strength; weakness.
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Origin of asthenia
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Attacks of syncope appear, and in fatal cases—which are not common—death results from asthenia.
When the eschars have become detached, suppuration exhausts the forces of the patient, and death takes place by asthenia.
Death takes place by asthenia in from six weeks to six months; occasionally within a fortnight from the apparent onset.
The disease runs a chronic course, and usually terminates in death by asthenia.
Unless the stricture is relieved the patient gradually dies from asthenia.
asthenia
astheny (ˈæsθənɪ)
- pathol an abnormal loss of strength; debility
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Word Origin
C19: via New Latin from Greek astheneia weakness, from a- 1 + sthenos strength
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Word Origin and History for asthenia
n.
"weakness," 1802, Modern Latin, from Greek asthenia "want of strength, weakness, feebleness, sickness; a sickness, a disease," from asthenes "weak, without strength, feeble," from a-, privative prefix (see a- (3)), + sthenos "strength," of uncertain origin.
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asthenia
(ăs-thē′nē-ə)- Loss or lack of bodily strength; weakness; debility.
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