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Definition of Inanition
1. Noun. Weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy.
2. Noun. Exhaustion resulting from lack of food.
Definition of Inanition
1. n. The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result.
Definition of Inanition
1. Noun. Emptiness. ¹
2. Noun. (medicine) A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food or water, or a physiological inability to utilize them; starvation. ¹
3. Noun. (philosophy) A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to the Existentialist Philosophy state of "nausea". ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inanition
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Inanition
1. Severe weakness and wasting as occurs from lack of food, defect in assimilation, or neoplastic disease. Origin: L. Inanis, empty (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inanition
Literary usage of Inanition
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lancet (1842)
"Of Inanition,—It was constantly his lot to see patients who were in jeopardy not
from fulness but from inanition, and who had long been kept in a state of ..."
2. Pathological physiology of internal diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"Partial Inanition By partial inanition we mean that the amount of energy supplied
... Partial inanition may be due: (1) to an increased consumption of body ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Partial Inanition By partial inanition we mean that the amount of energy supplied
... Partial inanition may be due: (1) to an increased consumption of body ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1879)
"... allowing contact of the fœtus with the uterine walls ; inanition, and gastric
catarrh have all had their advocates, but no one of these hypotheses can ..."
5. Lectures on Chemical Pathology in Its Relation to Practical Medicine by Christian Archibald Herter (1902)
"... AND Acute starvation and chronic inanition or under-nutrition—The subject of
acute starvation lives on his own cells and fluids—Activity of metabolism ..."
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