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Definition of Asthenic
1. Adjective. Lacking strength or vigor.
2. Adjective. Having a slender physique.
Definition of Asthenic
1. a. Characterized by, or pertaining to, debility; weak; debilitating.
Definition of Asthenic
1. Adjective. Characterized by, or pertaining to, debility; weak; debilitating. ¹
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Definition of Asthenic
1. a slender, lightly muscled person [n -S]
Medical Definition of Asthenic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Asthenic
Literary usage of Asthenic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1902)
"A Case of asthenic Bulbar Paralysis with the Results of Autopsy. ... discusses the
nature of asthenic bulbar paralysis and quotes a number of cases from the ..."
2. New Truths in Ophthalmology by Giles Christopher Savage (1896)
"It is evident that only asthenic ... there are also two forms of heterophoria,
the sthenic and the asthenic, the one being easily distinguishable from the ..."
3. Outlines of Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Charles Hubbard Judd (1897)
"Joy accompanied by surprise may, on the contrary, present the appearance, on its
physical side, of an asthenic emotion. The general phenomena of innervation ..."
4. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1860)
"And I believe likewise, that we might extend this remark to the opposite forms
of subacute or asthenic bronchitis, which we not uncommonly meet with—I mean ..."
5. Practical Organotherapy: The Internal Secretions in General Practice by Henry Robert Harrower (1922)
"THE asthenic, THIN, BUT WIRY TYPE Question: "You remember that a few weeks ago I
... The large majority of individuals who are asthenic and run-down are ..."
6. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1898)
"It is doubtful, however, whether these characters always suffice to enable us to
differentiate the cases of multiple neuritis. 6. asthenic ..."
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