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  • I only got Asthenic because it's a part of the "Asthenic syndrome", title of iconic Kira Muratova film.

    languagehat.com: BEAT THE JUDGE. 2004

  • The true Asthenic or Typhoid Fever occurs principally in persons whose constitutions are enervated by exposure, privation, irregularity of life, grief, or long residence in a vitiated atmosphere.

    An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863

  • Asthenic diseases, as has frequently been hinted, may be divided into two classes, those of direct debility, and those of indirect debility.

    Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784

  • Asthenic diathesis and disease is brought on by the excitement of the system being diminished: and this may proceed either from a diminution of common stimulant powers, while the excitability is sufficiently abundant, or it may proceed from an exhausted excitability, while the stimulus is sufficiently abundant.

    Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784

  • Following this introduction, under Chapter I, the general topic of what the writer terms the traumatic dysthenias or the traumatic sthenopathies is discussed under the following subheadings: (a) Simple post-traumatic asthenia; (b) Post-traumatic astheno-mania; (c) Prolonged asthenia and chronic traumatic asthenia, under which he includes traumatic neurasthenia, traumatic hystero-neurasthenia, traumatic neurosis, and traumatic psychoneurosis; (d) Chronic post-traumatic mania; (e) Periodic post-traumatic dysthenias; (f) Asthenic mania and pathological anatomy.

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916

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