(n.) Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of the above mathematical method it has been established that the most informative syndromes of Addison's disease are the combination of asthenia and adynamia with mass deficiency, arterial hypotension, skin pigmentation and nervous-psychic break-down.
(2) The patients complain before or during heat spells of such contradictory symptoms as insomnia, irritability, tension, tachycardia, palpitations, precordial pain, dyspnoe, flushes with sweating or chills, tremor, abdominal pain or diarrhea, polyuria or pollakisuria, weight loss in spite of ravenous appetite, fatigue, exhaustion, depression, adynamia, lack of concentration and confusion.
(3) The side-effects of beta-blocking-agents are presumably: bradycardia, bronchospasm, fatigue, adynamia, myocardial insufficiency, gastrointestinal symptoms, hypoglycemia, hypotension.
(4) The case reported concerns a child with chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (CIPO) whose digestive manifestations (intestinal adynamia and distension) were present from the age of 6 months and lasted, despite medical and surgical treatments until 4 years of age, when death occurred.
(5) It is concluded that asthenia, adynamia and anorexia were atypical manifestations of heart failure in the elderly.
(6) In subdepressive disorders, adynamia prevalent originally, vital signs appeared at the height of the disease and further on adynamia became manifest.
(7) In myotonic dystrophy, both tau m and tau h were larger than control; in recessive generalized myotonia and adynamia episodica both tau m and tau h were smaller than control.
(8) In the anamnesis symptoms of adynamia could be traced with nearly every patient.
(9) To study the mechanism of periodic paralysis, we investigated the properties of intact muscle fibers biopsied from a patient who had adynamia episodica hereditaria with electromyographic signs of myotonia.
(10) Nfx and Bz have serious undesirable effects, which have been reported during their clinical use, including anorexia and weight loss, nausea and vomiting, nervous excitation, insomnia, psyche depressions, convulsions, vertigo, headache, sleepiness, myalgias, arthralgias, loss of balance, disorientation, forgetfulness, paresthesias, adynamia, acoustic phenomena, peripheral neuropathies, gastralgia, mucosal edema, hepatic intolerance, skin manifestations, and intolerance to drinking alcohol.
(11) The most typical clinical signs of congenital cytomegaloviral infection were adynamia, jaundice, liver and CNS injury, prenatal hypotrophy; 45% of the children had developmental abnormalities and stigmas of dysembryogenesis.
(12) A housewife, 40 years of age, was admitted with dysesthesia of the extremities, muscle weakness, and attacks of adynamia and thirst.
(13) In relatively big doses it produced adynamia, hypothermy and a fall of arterial pressure.
(14) The cause of weakness was investigated in a patient with adynamia episodica hereditaria without myotonia.
(15) Chlorpromazine, trifluorpromazine, droperidol, haloperidol, domperidone and spiperone induced emotional behavior (restlessness, miaowing, rage, attack, defense, fighting with paws, biting), autonomic (mydriasis, tachypnoea, dyspnoea, panting, salivation, defecation, urination, licking, vomiting) and motor (ataxia, muscular weakness, adynamia) phenomena.
(16) A feverish syndrome with asthenia, adynamia, myalgias, migraine, photophobia, epigastralgia etc., appear.
(17) The only exception was propantheline which caused a muscular weakness and adynamia.
(18) The subjective complaints were very similar: head- and neck pain, vertigo, adynamia, sleep disturbances and severe disturbances of attention, concentration and memory.
(19) Special attention is drawn to the clinical differences of episodic hereditary adynamia and sporadic forms of hyperkaliemic paroxysmal myoplegia.
(20) The anticholinergic agents evoked: (1) psychomotor stimulation such as miaowing, loud calling, restlessness, impelling locomotion, jumping, vacant staring, apprehension and loss of interest of the surroundings; (2) aggression, hissing, threat, attack, defense, fighting with paws and flight; (3) autonomic responses including mydriasis, tachypnea, dyspnea, licking, vomiting, salivation, micturition and defection; and (4) motor phenomena comprising scratching, ataxia, rigidity, tremor, weakness with adynamia or myoclonic jerks.
Adynamic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.
(a.) Characterized by the absence of power or force.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment with salbutamol inhalation had a beneficial effect on the duration of their adynamic attacks.
(2) The clinical picture was dominated by suprarenal cortical insufficiency, manifested with pains in the abdomen, vomiting, hypotonia and severe asthenic-adynamic syndrome.
(3) The most remarkable changes in mental activity were recorded in children with the ++astheno-adynamic variant of the +cerebro-asthenic syndrome.
(4) The three other cases are members of the second sibship and belong to the type I fiber hypotrophy without central nuclei nor myothony and show the typical phenotypic characters: elongated face and adynamic appearance.
(5) Some characteristics of clinical manifestations and the course of schizophrenia running with adynamic depressive states have been discovered.
(6) Seven days after ingestion of Vacor, the patient presented in diabetic ketoacidosis complicated by postural hypotension and adynamic ileus.
(7) However, the emergence of adynamic bone disease has been recently reported in hemodialyzed patients in the total absence of aluminum overload.
(8) In order to assess and characterize adynamic ileus (AI) complicating acute diarrhoea (AD) in infants, 802 consecutive admissions were studied.
(9) However, the only significant effect on postoperative adynamic ileus was an earlier return to tolerance of solid foods in the patients in Group A.
(10) Regarding the colon, a disturbance in the electromechanical characteristics was found in irritable bowel syndrome, bacterial overgrowth in the small bowel, chronic constipation, and idiopathic intestinal pseudo-obstruction, which is probably identical with the clinical picture of adynamic ileus.
(11) We describe a patient who, during an episode of acute cardiac rejection, developed such severe systolic dysfunction that there was transient near-adynamic function of the right ventricle.
(12) The incidental occurrence of adynamic ileus in six of these rats, 5-16 days after surgery, prompted further investigation.
(13) Effect of intra-abdominal instillation of a local anaesthetic, bupivacaine, on postoperative colonic adynamic ileus was studied in a double blind manner in a randomised series of patients undergoing upper laparotomy.
(14) Considering this, Stark's classification of adynamic and spastic bladders according to amplitude of the contractions of the detrusor muscle is helpful only in combination with the cystometrical and myographical datas of the bladder outlet.
(15) Periods of diffuse or localized muscle weakness, lasting one to four days, were associated with the classic adynamic attacks.
(16) Major clinical types of depressions were: adynamic, anxious, senesto-hypochondric, combined depressive-paranoic, endoreactive.
(17) All patients with predominant low-turnover osteomalacia or adynamic bone disease displayed stainable bone aluminum.
(18) We conclude that the predominant bone lesion in our CAPD patients is low turnover bone disease, predominantly adynamic forms, and aluminum does not seem to play a role on its genesis.
(19) Laryngeal videostroboscopy under eight phonatory conditions showed that the Teflon-injected vocal folds were adynamic.
(20) This study was aimed to assess whether such a histological pattern of adynamic bone disease was already present in uremic patients not yet on dialysis.