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Definition of Asthenic type
1. Noun. Slender, weak, and lightweight.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asthenic Type
Literary usage of Asthenic type
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Pyaemia Or Suppurative Fever by Peter Murray Braidwood (1868)
"... however, grouped in many surgical works with erysipelas, diffuse inflammation
of the cellular tissue, and other inflammations of a low or asthenic type. ..."
2. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1858)
"In patients of a feeble constitution disease assumes an asthenic type: At the
present day disease is of an asthenic type; ..."
3. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1901)
"(2) asthenic type.—It is much more difficult to detect the »nset of suppuration
in a patient where the inflammation is of the low or asthenic type. ..."
4. Horses and Stables by Frederick Wellington John Fitzwygram (1886)
"Sthenic inflammation cannot be produced in a very weakly animal by any degree of
nervous exaltation; but the asthenic type may be generated in any animal by ..."
5. The Narcotic Drug Diseases and Allied Ailments: Pathology, Pathogenesis, and by George Eugene Pettey (1913)
"In the asthenic type the author has been able to get accurate records in a number
of cases, sufficient to afford a fair index to the condition of arterial ..."
6. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1866)
"Those infectious diseases, cg, in which the fever always takes the asthenic type,
are those in which a high temperature is wont to prevail for a long time; ..."
7. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1913)
"... or intestine, as the case may be, has a tendency to be of the hyper- asthenic
type, ie, hyperacidity, hypersecretion, with some pyloric spasm, ..."
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