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Asthenic

adjective
1.
Lacking strength or vigor.  Synonyms: adynamic, debilitated, enervated.
2.
Having a slender physique.



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"Asthenic" Quotes from Famous Books



... Even more widespread became the theories of a pupil of Cullen's, John Brown, who regarded excitability as the fundamental property of all living creatures: too much of this excitability produced what were known as sthenic maladies, too little, asthenic; on which principles practice was plain enough. Few systems of medicine have ever stirred such bitter controversy, particularly on the Continent, and in Charles Creighton's account of Brown(7) we read that as late as 1802 the University of Gottingen ...
— The Evolution of Modern Medicine • William Osler



Words linked to "Asthenic" :   asthenia, astheny, weak, adynamic, asthenic type, ectomorphic, enervated



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