Definition of "adynamia" [ad•y•na•mi•a]

• Loss of strength or vigor, usually because of disease. (noun)

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• "In reality, we have the disappearance of hope as basic in this adynamia."
• "Vurpas remark, consists essentially in "a more and more marked tension of the motor state which, reaching its maximum, presents a short tonic phase, followed by a clonic phase, and terminates in a period of adynamia and repose.""
• "In death from adynamia it is through failure of muscle, that is, of the heart, of the scaleni and intercostals, of the diaphragm, and of the laryngeal muscles, et cetera."