Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a condition characterized by extreme excitement of all the vital phenomena.
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								Wherever the electro-vital fluid is in _excess_, producing hypersthenia -- too much vital action -- the part is morbidly _positive_; and, excepting sometimes in the stomach and bowels, the B D current, of medium force, directed to that part under the negative pole, will produce _sharp pain_. A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication Daniel Clark 
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								The former class comprises every variety and phase of hypersthenia, and the latter, every sort and degree of anæsthesia, or rather, of azoödynamia. A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication Daniel Clark 
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								Persons who chatter about the necessity of awaiting inspirational hypersthenia don't know what the business of being an artist is. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899 
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								Steeped in superstition, hypersthenia, God to her was a man -- her lover. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Elbert Hubbard 1885 
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