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Definition of Adynamic

1. Adjective. Characterized by an absence of force or forcefulness.

Definition of Adynamic

1. a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.

Definition of Adynamic

1. Adjective. Not dynamic; without strength or vigor. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Adynamic

1. adynamia [adj] - See also: adynamia

Medical Definition of Adynamic

1. 1. Pertaining to, or characterised by, debility of the vital powers; weak. 2. Characterised by the absence of power or force. Adynamic fevers, malignant or putrid fevers attended with great muscular debility. Origin: Cf. F. Adynamique. See Adynamy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adynamic

Literary usage of Adynamic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1860)
"Some Remarks on the adynamic Type of Remittent Fever and its Treatment with Nitric Acid. By BEDFORD BROWN, MD, Yanceyville, Caswell County, NC ATTACKS of ..."

2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1861)
"is not caused by air filtered through cotton; and we now ask, if the air, rendered adynamic by the process of Hirn, will not possess still more passivity ? ..."

3. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1861)
"... is not caused by air filtered through cotton ; and we now ask, if the air, rendered adynamic by the process of Him, will not possess still more Ivity? ..."

4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1861)
"is not caused by air filtered through cotton; and we now ask, if the air, rendered adynamic by the process of Hirn, will not possess still more passivity ? ..."

5. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery edited by Lunsford Pitts Yandell, Theodore Stout Bell (1847)
"Affection, of Peyer's Glands in adynamic Fever.—At a meeting of the New York Medical and Surgical Society, January 23d, Dr. Sweet stated that he had lately ..."

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