ASTHENIA
\ɐsθˈiːni͡ə], \ɐsθˈiːniə], \ɐ_s_θ_ˈiː_n_iə]\
Definitions of ASTHENIA
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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as-th[=e]-n[=i]'a, n. debility, lack of strength.--adj. ASTHEN'IC [Gr. a, priv., and sthenos, strength.]
By Thomas Davidson
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A word used in this sense by Galen, and employed, especially by Brown, to designate debility of the whole economy, or diminution of the vital forces. He distinguished it into direct and indirect: the former proceeding from diminution of stimuli; the latter from exhaustion of incitability by the abuse of stimuli.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).