sthenic

[sthen-ik]

adjective

1. sturdy; heavily and strongly built.

sthenic

/ ˈsθɛnɪk /

adjective

1. abounding in energy or bodily strength; active or strong

Word History and Origins

Origin of sthenic¹

First recorded in 1780–90; extracted from asthenic

Word History and Origins

Origin of sthenic¹

C18: from New Latin sthenicus, from Greek sthenos force, on the model of asthenic

Example Sentences

Our own experience would lead us to conclude that in the more sthenic cases scarified cups, applied to the nape of the neck and along the cervical vertebr�, are of essential service in mitigating—and generally, indeed, in wholly removing—the neuralgic pains which form so prominent and severe a symptom in many cases of this disease.

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It is evident that venesection, which was necessary for procuring the living blood for analysis, would only be performed when the type of the disease authorized it—that is, when the type was sthenic; whereas the blood examined after death had necessarily undergone changes which tended to, if they did not actually, occasion death.

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Some of its epidemics are sthenic and even inflammatory in their type, while others have the malignant aspect of rapid blood-poisoning.

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These contrasts have been exhibited on a large scale, for while upon the continent of Europe the disease for the most part has presented sthenic phenomena, it has been more generally asthenic and adynamic in Ireland.

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It may be said, in general terms, to be variable in rate and strength even in the most sthenic cases of the disease, and in those which tend to a fatal issue to be small, thready, weak, intermittent, or imperceptible for a longer or shorter time before death.

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