What's the difference between asthenic and sthenic?
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).
Sthenic
Definition:
(a.) Strong; active; -- said especially of morbid states attended with excessive action of the heart and blood vessels, and characterized by strength and activity of the muscular and nervous system; as, a sthenic fever.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both positive and negative emotions seem to be able to develop in asthenic or sthenic ways.
(2) The authors reveal correlation of the expressiveness of the above-mentioned thinking anomaly with definite types of personality anomalies (sthenic, hyperthymic and mosaic schizoids).
(3) It was found that patients with sthenic and thymopathic types of remissions had the best readaptive potentials.
(4) The type of schizoid psychopathy (asthenic, normosthenic, sthenic) and environmental factors were both determinants of psychopathologic structure and course of fears.
(5) They also considered the incidence of manifest and latent forms of schizophrenia and the rate of personality anomalies in families of probands with the differentiation of schizoid anomalies by the predominance of sthenic and asthenic features.
(6) In borderline conditions of a sthenic pole the effectiveness of tranquilizers is equal or sometimes is even less than in therapy with small doses of neuroleptics.
(7) In a sthenic type of remission personality changes are partial.
(8) The authors describe 8 types of the premorbid personality: 1) hyperthymic; 2) sthenic; 3) sensitive; 4) dissociated; 5) passive; schizoid; 6) explosive; 7) model and 8) deficitary personalities.
(9) The trauma patients predominantly described themselves as sthenic, outgoing, self-reliant, insensitive to the opinions of others, and as individuals with a low degree of self-criticism.
(10) "Subclinical forms of psychosis" and personality abnormalities of the type of sthenic schizoids were also prevalent among the relatives of the second group probands (22% and 28%, respectively).
(11) This form of violence was called sthenic aggression.
(12) The authors examined the serotonin and 5-oxyindolacetic acid content in the blood plasma and diurnal urine excretion of 5 OIAA of 37 children from 7--12 years of age with sthenic and asthenic forms of mental retardation.
(13) The effect of emotions on the sensory sphere was shown to be determined by their sign and their sthenic or asthenic character.
(14) In patients with the sthenic variety of hysteroid accentuation, the positive dynamics was recorded in but 30% of cases, in the asthenic variety of hysteroid accentuation, in 48.6% of cases.
(15) This position is more indicative of displacement in sthenic than in asthenic individuals.
(16) Using a clinico-psychological approach, personality changes have been studied in 40 patients with attack-like schizophrenia presenting asthenic (n = 22) or sthenic (n = 18) types of remissions.
(17) The personality was also being analyzed from the point of view of age traits in asthenic, sthenic and mixed variants of the schizoid type.
(18) The effectiveness in treating borderline states to a certain degree depends upon the pole (sthenic or asthenic) of the corresponding disturbance.
(19) The authors identified such variants of fantasy at a non-psychotic level as "expansive-sthenic" and "paraphrenia-like" which are considered as manifestations of adaptive psychological mechanisms.
(20) The author proposes a new "ring-like" classification of psychopathies which includes the most definitely described prevalent clinical variants with due consideration of mutual transitions of some forms of psychopathy into others (mixed forms, "complex" psychopathic syndrome) and also an energy potential of individuals with some persons being referred to the sthenic (excitable) pole and others to the asthenic (inhibitory) pole.