ADJECTIVE
  1. having a slender physique
  2. lacking energy or vitality
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How To Use asthenic In A Sentence

  • The inflammatory state has been called the acute rheumatism, and the other, the chronic rheumatism; I would, however, prefer the terms sthenic and asthenic rheumatism. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
  • These instincts whether positive or negative in kind work in one of two opposite ways, sthenic or asthenic.
  • It's hard to envision neurasthenic pulling or other activity, but I don't grok Hegelian infinitesimals either.
  • After a moment's silence he said, `As far as I can tell I am still whole, neither unnerved nor asthenic. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
  • A very principal object however is to understand the nature of predisposition, and the kind of diathesis, whether sthenic or asthenic, to which it inclines: this not only throws light on the nature of the disease, but affords us the only means of preventing it. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
  • From this same standpoint I have studied another case, a married woman of twenty-nine, with marked neurasthenic and hysterical symptoms (including astasia-abasia, anesthesias, palpitation of the heart, throbbing sensations in the stomach and a great many other symptoms). The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • The selves jostle for prominence in these pages: the mono-browed Neanderthal shoulders aside axe-wielding Homo sapiens; the neurasthenic intellectual trips up the bedaubed aborigine. Excerpt: Any Human Heart by William Boyd
  • It has relieved tonic, and clonic spasms, and the spasms of sthenic as well as asthenic conditions.
  • See at neurasthenic, also see at spending recognizant obstacle gently when.
  • When the phenomena are marked it is termed sthenic; when less distinct, as the result of a broken-down and feeble constitution in the animal, it is called asthenic. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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