What's the difference between asthenia and asthenic?

Asthenia


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Astheny

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Along with asthenia, polyadenopathies, and shingles, it is often an early sign of AIDS.
  • (2) None of these factors explains the phenomenon of asthenia, a subjective sense of exhaustion that produces no objective impairment of physical performance.
  • (3) Certain abnormal phenomena in the field of consciousness and body sensations are typical of coenasthetic schizophrenia, with vital asthenia and vegetative symptoms.
  • (4) The difference between the two types was significant (P less than 0.01, P less than 0.05) whereas the positive rates of the CIC, TMCA, TGA also were higher in the deficiency of Yin leads to hyperactivity of Fire than those in the depression of Liver-energy and asthenia of Spleen.
  • (5) We conclude that asthenia is a frequent symptom in patients with advanced breast cancer, which, in our series, showed independent correlations only with psychological distress.
  • (6) The subjects were divided into 5 groups: heart-asthenia syndrome (98 cases), lung-asthenia syndrome (23 cases), spleen-asthenia syndrome (23 cases), kidney-asthenia syndrome (10 cases) and normal group (100 cases).
  • (7) Only the Th of the group of asthenia of both Spleen and Kidney among 5 syndrome groups was decreased significantly and contrary to the group of deficiency of Liver-Yin and Kidney-Yin.
  • (8) Although the risk of fulminant hepatitis is very low, we recommend that, in patients taking pirprofen for more than 2 mo and complaining of asthenia, nausea, or vomiting, serum aminotransferase levels should be measured and administration of the drug should be interrupted as soon as an increased level is noted.
  • (9) Lumbosacral pain disappeared in 87 out of 90, subjects, intercostal pain in 20 out of 28, headache mitigated in 40 out of 53, asthenia was markedly reduced in 49 out of 50.
  • (10) 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.
  • (11) One should distinguish in these patients mental disorders per se (asthenia, depression and hypochondria) and different functional-somatic, vegetative-vascular and senestopathic disorders and their combinations.
  • (12) Cancer cachexia is a complex syndrome that includes host tissue wasting, anorexia, asthenia, and abnormal host intermediary metabolism.
  • (13) In these patients with asthenia-syndrome the activity of IL-2 receptor was lower than those with asthenia syndrome.
  • (14) The local pain and the asthenia, general malaise and myalgia were the more outstanding symptoms in both cases.
  • (15) It is concluded that asthenia, adynamia and anorexia were atypical manifestations of heart failure in the elderly.
  • (16) The most frequent observations were taste disorders, asthenia and weight gain.
  • (17) The most common side effects associated with terazosin treatment are dizziness, headache, asthenia and nasal congestion, but these are usually mild and do not require treatment discontinuation.
  • (18) Relieving these affective disorders and asthenia was conductive to evaluation of the true degree of partially reversible mnestic disorders.
  • (19) Fifty-six patients with cerebral atherosclerosis and epileptiform symptomatology presented an organic defect with signs of lacunar imbecility and atherosclerotic asthenia.
  • (20) This 1st definition contained 4 major criteria (chronic asthenia, major weight loss, chronic fever, and chronic diarrhea) and 6 minor criteria (chronic cough, persistent lymphadenopathy, herpes zoster, recurrent herpetic infection, pruritic dermatitis, and oropharyngeal candidiasis).

Asthenic


Definition:

  • (a.) Characterized by, or pertaining to, debility; weak; debilitating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Predisposing factors in the progression of radiation injury include excessive radiation, underlying cardiovascular disease, fixation of the bowel, and an asthenic habitus.
  • (2) It was possible to show an increase of the initial serotonin and 5-OIAA level in the blood plasma of patients with the asthenic variant.
  • (3) Analysis of asthenic reactions and phases that occur periodically in persons suffering from psychopathies of the sthemic pole (33 cases) has demonstrated that the structure of the syndrome is determined by the combination of the two signs: phenomena of irritative weakness and symptomatology of the somatopsychic circle.
  • (4) Its application was characterized by a faster onset of the therapeutic effect and a peculiar mild psychostimulating action, primarily manifested in the impact on obligate manifestations of the asthenic disorders.
  • (5) The author has analyzed the dynamics of these variants of the asthenic symptom complex to which, with the progression of the process, disturbances of the non-delirious hypochondria type are added.
  • (6) As for their family situations, their fathers were rather asthenic and their mothers often lacked emotional communication in child-rearing.
  • (7) The clinical picture was dominated by suprarenal cortical insufficiency, manifested with pains in the abdomen, vomiting, hypotonia and severe asthenic-adynamic syndrome.
  • (8) The most remarkable changes in mental activity were recorded in children with the ++astheno-adynamic variant of the +cerebro-asthenic syndrome.
  • (9) On the basis of clinical, experimental psychological and EEG data of 133 blind patients 4 types of neurotical personality development were distinguished: asthenical, hysterical, obsessive and hypochondrical.
  • (10) The author shows the pathomorphosis of modern hysterical neurotic disturbances and emphasizes a tendency toward imitation of common somatic diseases and the predominance in the clinical picture of neurosis of somato-vegetative and asthenic manifestations.
  • (11) The authors show an important role of the clinical features of myocardial infarction in the formation of asthenic symptomatology and affective pathology in the acute period of myocardial infarction.
  • (12) During examination of 200 WPWS patients, asthenic constitution, dolichocephalism and arachnodactyly were revealed in most of them.
  • (13) In 44% of cases asthenic symptoms were present in connection with microseizures.
  • (14) Early neurosyphilis was characterized by affective volitional, asthenic, and hypochondriac disorders, whereas late neurosyphilis was manifested in neurosis-like disturbances, partial and total dementia and hallucinational paranoid syndrome.
  • (15) The study yielded some particular clinical variants of the remissions: asthenic, hyperthymic-hypersthenic, explosive and paranoid.
  • (16) Rheovasography of the upper and lower limbs has revealed the spastic asthenic syndrome in all the examinees; this syndrome most frequently manifested by increased tone and decreased pulse blood content of the vessels.
  • (17) In addition to the changes observable in the directly irradiated tissues, many authors point to a possibility of functional disturbances on the part of certain organs and systems of the body, followed by the formation of asthenic and vegetovascular syndromes.
  • (18) The older sister has microcephaly, mental retardation, an asymmetrical and peculiar face with low set ears, pinched up nose, high arched palate, small mouth, micrognathia, tapering fingers, asymmetrical length of legs, and an asthenic body.
  • (19) The most common were asthenic, anxiety, depressive, hypochondriac disorders, a decrease in mental efficiency.
  • (20) In a series of 130 patients with asthenic conditions related to borderline forms of neuro-mental disturbances the authors compared clinico-pharmacological action of the actoprotector bemitil with that of nootropic drugs (piracetam and piridotol).

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