Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Loss of strength or vigor, usually because of disease.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, weakness; want of strength occasioned by disease; a deficiency of vital power; asthenia. Also called
adynamy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Lack or loss of
strength , usually due to adisease .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun lack of strength or vigor (especially from illness)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In reality, we have the disappearance of hope as basic in this adynamia.
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Vurpas remark, consists essentially in "a more and more marked tension of the motor state which, reaching its maximum, presents a short tonic phase, followed by a clonic phase, and terminates in a period of adynamia and repose."
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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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.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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Grammar, (word or clause) expressing opposition or antithesis. adj. - lacking strength; causing weakness. adynamia, n ..
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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As in Berberis, and the clafs Tetr adynamia* — Corolla or petals: falling off with the reft of the flower.
jmjarmstrong commented on the word adynamia
JM trusts that adynamia will not be a force to be reckoned with.
June 13, 2010