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adynamia

/ ˌædɪˈnæmɪk; ˌædɪˈneɪmɪə /

noun

  1. obsolete.
    loss of vital power or strength, esp as the result of illness; weakness or debility
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • adynamic, adjective
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Origin of adynamia1

C19: New Latin, from a- 1+ -dynamia, from Greek dunamis strength, force
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While certain cases, or even epidemics, of malarial fevers are attended by remarkable adynamia, often manifesting itself from the very incipiency of attacks, it differs widely from that utter nervous ataxia which characterizes typhoid fever.

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"Bad blood" so called, asthenia and adynamia, and particularly a tendency to malignancy in acute and sub-acute disorders, seem to be special indicators for the use of Echinacea.

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At this stage of the disease, in which adynamia predominates, everything must tend to support the organism.

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In death from adynamia it is through failure of muscle, that is, of the heart, of the scaleni and intercostals, of the diaphragm, and of the laryngeal muscles, et cetera.

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In reality, we have the disappearance of hope as basic in this adynamia.

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