What's the difference between lassitude and neurasthenia?

Lassitude


Definition:

  • (n.) A condition of the body, or mind, when its voluntary functions are performed with difficulty, and only by a strong exertion of the will; languor; debility; weariness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Adverse effects are mostly those related to hormone withdrawal, namely, impotence, infertility, and lassitude.
  • (2) Consecutive man-of-the-match performances against Greece and Ivory Coast helped Colombia brush aside the lassitude that swamped the country’s World Cup preparations after injury to their talismanic striker Falcao .
  • (3) The emancipation of children, the anxieties sometimes caused by the age of the parents, the lack of interest which society has in the 50 years old woman, but which it very readily takes in the old woman, conjugal lassitude, the lack of comprehension of those around her, very often bring such women to the doctor, who should know not only how to palliate the oestrogen deficiency, and the organic disorders, but also show evidence of a certain psychological understanding.
  • (4) Twenty workers promptly developed symptoms (e.g., nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort, diarrhea, giddiness, lassitude, headache, cough, shortness of breath) that typically lasted a few hours but persisted 1-2 days in 7 cases.
  • (5) A 46-year-old man, presenting with headache, nausea, and lassitude, was diagnosed as having diabetes mellitus and hyponatremia, and admitted to Tohoku University Hospital.
  • (6) 24 out of 30 employees at the X-ray department in Molde were shown to have health problems related to their work, including symptoms relating to the eyes, the upper and lower respiratory tract, and headache and lassitude.
  • (7) Abdominal or rectal pain and lassitude were the other main symptoms.
  • (8) A Senate leadership aide at the time, stunned by what she considered White House lassitude, explained why even people inclined to help Obama would vote against the measure: Obama had decreed Guantánamo be closed without presenting lawmakers with a specific plan they could defend to skeptical constituents.
  • (9) To fall back into the lassitude of the last 12 years, to talk, to discuss, to debate but never act; to declare our will but not enforce it; to combine strong language with weak intentions, a worse outcome than never speaking at all.
  • (10) HVA levels correlated positively with social interest and total positive scores on the Nurses Observation Scale for Inpatient Evaluation (NOSIE-30) and negatively with lassitude and slowness of movements on the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS).
  • (11) Lethal doses of enterotoxin of Clostridium welchii (perfringens) type A injected intravenously into young fowls caused immediate lassitude, with partial recovery, followed by death seven to 35 h after inoculation.
  • (12) We found clinical symptoms of fever, chills, headache, abdominal pain, disturbances in bowel function, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, and lassitude in the first two weeks more frequently when compared with the 3rd, 4th, 5th weeks of illness (p less than 0.001).
  • (13) She was admitted to our hospital for her gradual onset of fatigue, lassitude.
  • (14) Side effects including dizziness, headache, abdominal discomfort, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, lassitude, arthralgia, sleepiness, cramps and hot sensation were the complaints from 80% of adults and 40% of children.
  • (15) We only observed, for one or two days, lassitude, headache, drowsiness, nausea, epigastric pain or arthralgia-myalgia, always of weak or moderate intensity and for 1 or 2 days.
  • (16) A 46-year-old man experienced weakness, lassitude, and vague, aching abdominal pain in the right upper quadrant.
  • (17) By the end of the study, a statistically significant improvement in three subjective parameters, ie, lassitude, the ability to concentrate in school, and mood was reported by the girls who ingested iron compared with the controls.
  • (18) A 17-year old-male presented with a 6-week history of weight loss, lassitude and calf pains.
  • (19) Anorexia, lassitude and severe diarrhoea were seen in 14 of the infected sheep after 21-26 days.
  • (20) The concurrence of hypertension combined with hypokalemia and revealing subjective symptoms such as paresthesia, muscular weakness and lassitude can suggest this infrequent diagnosis.

Neurasthenia


Definition:

  • (n.) A condition of nervous debility supposed to be dependent upon impairment in the functions of the spinal cord.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The controversy about "fasting girls" and the all-dominating diagnosis of neurasthenia may explain the delay in the American interest in the new disorder.
  • (2) In depression neurosis, neurasthenia and anxiety neurosis the scale 2 (D) increases dominantly; in hysteria, the scale 3 (HY); in hypochondria, the scale 1 (HS); in phobic and compulsion neurosis, the scale 7.
  • (3) The Japanese preferred alternative was to give a vague alternative diagnosis such as neurasthenia.
  • (4) Uncertainty of diagnosis with ever expanding diagnostic criteria, therapy undertaken without an adequate physiological basis, and often adverse effects from therapy, were characteristic of the medicalization of neurasthenia and premenstrual syndrome.
  • (5) This paper evaluates the claim that Vietnam veterans with psychiatric disorders are suffering from toxic neurasthenia--a neurasthenic syndrome caused by exposure to pesticides while serving in Vietnam.
  • (6) Findings from empirical research on neurasthenia in China, and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in the United States, corroborate this formulation.
  • (7) Based on quotations from Freuds writings on the actual neurosis and quotations from Schultz-Henckes writings on neurasthenia and nervousness, the psychodynamics of psychovegetative disturbances are demonstrated through an examplatory case.
  • (8) Thus, in the work- and production-oriented society, chronic fatigue, which affects one's productivity and ability to work, becomes a hallmark of neurasthenia or neurasthenia-like syndrome.
  • (9) The focused ultrasound has been used for the comparative study of skin sensitivity to pain in 51 healthy men and 64 patients with neurasthenia, natural model of the chronic psycho-emotional stress.
  • (10) Depression was not a frequent diagnosis, but neurasthenia was a fairly common one.
  • (11) Despite its origin in Western psychiatry, neurasthenia has become a popular concept in Chinese folk medicine, referring to a variety of somatic and psychological symptoms.
  • (12) Thirty patients with cerebral arachnoiditis and 26 with neurasthenia were found to have differences in the content of serotonin, 5-hydroxyindoleacetic++ acid and melatonin in the cerebrospinal fluid, which depended in arachnoiditis on the degree of intracranial pressure elevation.
  • (13) Popular Chinese books on neurasthenia suggest that causes might be attributed to lifestyle, psychological factors, and health problems.
  • (14) It is further argued that neither neurasthenia nor 'ME' can be fully understood within a single medical or psychiatric model.
  • (15) helped to enhance exercise tolerance, to lower the blood levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, FFA, the total fraction of low- and very low-density lipoproteins, to reduce manifestations of hypochondriasis, depression, and neurasthenia .
  • (16) The history of neurasthenia is discussed in the light of current interest in chronic fatigue, and in particular the illness called myalgic encephalomyelitis ('ME').
  • (17) Both the nineteenth and twentieth century cultural views of women were important in the establishment of menstruation, neurasthenia and premenstrual syndrome as medical conditions.
  • (18) Two forms of neuroses--neurasthenia and hysteria--show statistically definitive differences in the EEG patterns.
  • (19) Symptoms of anxiety, depression, and neurasthenia were seen significantly more often among the female patients than in the normal women.
  • (20) The functional stomatological diseases in the form of stomatalgias were revealed in all the patients suffering from neurasthenia, neurotic depression, neurotic development of the personality as well as from psychopathy decompensation.

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