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101BRUNONIAN SYSTEM — a system which regards and treats diseases as due to defective or excessive excitation, as sthenic or asthenic. See BROWN, JOHN4 …
102athletic — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. sporting, gymnastic, acrobatic; agile, strong. See strength, amusement, exertion. Ant., weak, awkward, unskillful. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. muscular, fit, husky, wiry, springy, slim, fast, solid …
103Weakness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Weakness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 weakness weakness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 debility debility atony relaxation languor enervation Sgm: N 1 impotence impotence &c. 158 Sgm: N 1 …
104Moral insanity — (insanity without hallucinations or delusions). See Prichard, James Cowles (1835). Distinction between momentary symptom picture and underlying disease process in psychiatry (1844). To some extent, physicians have always been aware that the …
105asthenia — [əs θi:nɪə] noun Medicine abnormal physical weakness or lack of energy. Derivatives asthenic adjective Origin C18: mod. L., from Gk astheneia, from asthenēs weak …
106sthenic — [ sθɛnɪk] adjective having a high or excessive level of strength and energy. Origin C18: from Gk sthenos strength , on the pattern of asthenic …
107atonic — I. a. 1. Marked by atony, asthenic, showing languor or exhaustion. 2. Unaccented, without any accentual mark. 3. Aspirate, aspirated, merely breathed, surd, non sonant. II. n. See preceding adjective …
108sluggish — adjective 1) Alex felt tired and sluggish Syn: lethargic, listless, lacking in energy, lifeless, inert, inactive, slow, torpid, languid, apathetic, weary, tired, fatigued, sleepy, drowsy, enervated; lazy …
109feeble — adj 1. weak, frail, fragile, delicate, slight, puny, Pathol. asthenic, anemic; weakly, sickly, not strong, unhealthy, Scot. shilpit, ailing; infirm, unsteady, Inf. dotty, shaky, trembling, tottering, doddering; impotent, powerless, impuissant,… …
110powerless — adj 1. impotent, impuissant, strength less, harmless, ineffectual, ineffective, inefficacious, nugatory, null and void, inoperative; incompetent, inept, inapt, unfit, inefficient, inadequate, insufficient, incapable; useless, inutile, worthless,… …
