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Asthenia

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Weakness.

Lack of energy and strength.

Loss of strength.

The word asthenia is not much used in medicine today, although it is a prominent part of myasthenia, a loss of muscle strength, as in myasthenia gravis.

Asthenia is from the Greek asthenes, from a- (without) + sthenos (strength).

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