Definition of Anergic

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of anergy ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Anergic

1. anergy [adj] - See also: anergy

Medical Definition of Anergic

1. 1. Characterised by abnormal inactivity, inactive. 2. Marked by asthenia or lack of energy. 3. Pertaining to anergy. Origin: Gr. Ergon = work (18 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anergic

anend
anenst
anent
anenterous
aneolithic
anephric
anepia
anepigraphic
anepiploic
anergasia
anergastic
anergia
anergias
anergic (current term)
anergic leishmaniasis
anergies
anergize
anergized
anergy
anerly
aneroid
aneroid barometer
aneroids
anerythroplasia
anerythroplastic
anerythroregenerative
anes
anesis

Literary usage of Anergic

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

1. Mind and Its Disorders: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by William Henry Butter Stoddart (1908)
"HYPOTONIA IN anergic STUPOR. the ground like a log. In severe examples flaccidity of the trunk may sometimes be observed. The patient lies in bed in any ..."

2. Mental diseases by Charles Follen Folsom (1886)
"... (6) anergic stupor (primary dementia, dementia attonita) ; (c) secondary ... neuroses and symptoms resembling catalepsy, tetanus, and anergic stupor, ..."

3. Quarterly Compendium of Medical Science by D. G. Brinton (1885)
"anergic Stupor. Dr. THOMAS W. DEW Aa reports this case in the Edinburgh Med. Jour., December, 1884: The following case came under my charge on Wednesday, ..."

4. Clinical lectures on mental diseases by Thomas Smith Clouston (1904)
"He gave us the admirable word "anergic" to describe the passive, ... If you take a typical case of either the melancholic or the anergic varieties, ..."

5. A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine: Giving the Definition, Etymology and by Daniel Hack Tuke (1892)
"It is to this condition to which the terms acute dementia, anergic, and apathetic stupor are attached Such are two very different mental states ..."

6. Psychological Medicine; a Manual on Mental Diseases for Practitioners and by Maurice Craig (1905)
"There is almost complete amnesia in the anergic form of stupor, ... Delusions may be present or absent ; in the anergic types they usually fail to be ..."

7. Screening for Infectious Diseases Among Substance Abusers: A Treatment by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"Any reaction with induration to the mumps, tetanus, or Candida skin tests means that the person is not anergic. For the PPD tuberculin skin test, ..."

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