Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Lack of energy; passivity. Also anergy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Lack of energy; inactivity.

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  • An earlier study by Dr. Maurer and the Stroud Center for the Studies of Quality of Life at Columbia University showed that anergia may stem from many conditions, including heart and kidney dysfunction, arthritis, lung disease, anemia and depression.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • In the current study, Dr. Maurer, together with Susan Delisle, NP, and the Healthcare Innovation and Technology Lab at Columbia University, found significant discrepancies between self-reported fatigue and actigraphy readings, suggesting that these readings provide complimentary and important information about the link between heart failure, sleep disorders and impairments in health-related quality of life that may be operative through anergia.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • "The overall goal of our current research efforts is to develop methods to evaluate and assess the causal or contributing factors of anergia in order to develop interventions to decrease morbidity and mortality due to this syndrome," Dr. Maurer says.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • Encouraged by the results, Maurer and his team have applied for a $2 million NIH grant to gather more data to further study the origins and challenges of treating anergia.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • Whether anergia is a result of heart failure or perhaps a potential underlying contributing factor is not entirely clear.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • With the help of a non-invasive method of monitoring human activity, doctors and researchers at Columbia University Medical Center are shedding new light on a syndrome affecting nearly 40 percent of older adults with heart failure: anergia.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • "The overall goal of our current research efforts is to develop methods to evaluate and assess the causal or contributing factors of anergia in order to develop interventions to decrease morbidity and mortality due to this syndrome," Dr. Maurer says.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • An earlier study by Dr. Maurer and the Stroud Center for the Studies of Quality of Life at Columbia University showed that anergia may stem from many conditions, including heart and kidney dysfunction, arthritis, lung disease, anemia and depression.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • With the help of a non-invasive method of monitoring human activity, doctors and researchers at Columbia University Medical Center are shedding new light on a syndrome affecting nearly 40 percent of older adults with heart failure: anergia.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • Whether anergia is a result of heart failure or perhaps a potential underlying contributing factor is not entirely clear.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

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  • The Church of Indifference's teaching

    Holds holiness not worth the reaching.

    Its superfluous clergy are

    Sunk deep in anergia

    And cannot be bothered with preaching.

    January 12, 2017