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单词 sthenic
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Definition of sthenic in English:

sthenic

adjective ˈsθɛnɪkˈsθɛnɪk
Medicine dated
  • Of or having a high or excessive level of strength and energy.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These instincts whether positive or negative in kind work in one of two opposite ways, sthenic or asthenic.
    • At the onset of tonsillitis the conditions are usually sthenic and indications prominent for veratrum.
    • They bled in all sthenic disease for ‘spasms of the extreme arteries, for congestion,’ etc.
    • Whether the fever is sthenic or asthenic at the period of its announcement, as the disease progresses the signs of depression become marked, and the patient rapidly sinks into a typhoid condition.
    • It has relieved tonic, and clonic spasms, and the spasms of sthenic as well as asthenic conditions.

Origin

Late 18th century: from Greek sthenos 'strength', on the pattern of asthenic.

 
 

Definition of sthenic in US English:

sthenic

adjectiveˈsTHenikˈsθɛnɪk
Medicine dated
  • Of or having a high or excessive level of strength and energy.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These instincts whether positive or negative in kind work in one of two opposite ways, sthenic or asthenic.
    • Whether the fever is sthenic or asthenic at the period of its announcement, as the disease progresses the signs of depression become marked, and the patient rapidly sinks into a typhoid condition.
    • It has relieved tonic, and clonic spasms, and the spasms of sthenic as well as asthenic conditions.
    • At the onset of tonsillitis the conditions are usually sthenic and indications prominent for veratrum.
    • They bled in all sthenic disease for ‘spasms of the extreme arteries, for congestion,’ etc.

Origin

Late 18th century: from Greek sthenos ‘strength’, on the pattern of asthenic.

 
 
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