Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Inability to stand because of motor incoordination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun [lowercase] Inability to stand in consequence of defective muscular action, which is not necessarily in coördination or paralysis.
- noun A genus of eustomatous flagellate infusorians, typical of the family Astasiidæ, having a distinct tubular pharynx. It contains such species as A. trichophora, found in marsh-water.
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- noun medicine Inability to
stand without assistance.
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- noun inability to stand due to muscular incoordination
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek, unsteadiness, from astatos, unsteady : a-, not; see a– + statos, standing; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]
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Examples
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From this same standpoint I have studied another case, a married woman of twenty-nine, with marked neurasthenic and hysterical symptoms (including astasia-abasia, anesthesias, palpitation of the heart, throbbing sensations in the stomach and a great many other symptoms).
mollusque commented on the word astasia
Just noticed that Anastasia is litotic.
April 23, 2009
rolig commented on the word astasia
She's understated, moll?
April 23, 2009
mollusque commented on the word astasia
She's not unable to stand. ("Anastasia" refers to resurrection).
April 23, 2009