Asthenia: Weakness. Lack of energy and strength. Loss of strength. The word asthenia is not much used in medicine today, although it is a prominent part of myasthenia, a loss of muscle strength, as in myasthenia gravis.
Asthenia is from the Greek asthenes, from a- (without) + sthenos (strength).
asthenia /as·the·nia/ (as-the´ne-ah) lack or loss of strength and energy; weakness. neurocirculatory asthenia a syndrome of breathlessness, fear of effort, a sense ...
Library > Literature & Language > Dictionary ( ăs-thē ' nē-ə ) n. Loss or lack of bodily strength; weakness; debility. [New Latin, from Greek astheneia , from ...
Asthenia: Weakness. Lack of energy and strength. Loss of strength. The word asthenia is not much used in medicine today, although it is a prominent part of myasthenia, a ...
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noun lack or loss of strength; weakness. Origin: 1795–1805; < Neo-Latin < Greek asthéneia weakness, equivalent to asthene-, stem of asthenḗs ( a- a- 6 + sthene ...