Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or marked by sthenia; strong, vigorous, or active.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Strong; robust; characterized by power of organization or energy of function, as a part or organ of an animal. See negasthenic, microsthenic.
- In pathology, attended with a morbid increase of vital (especially cardiac) action. Sthenic diseases are opposed to diseases of debility, or asthenic diseases.
- Exciting; inspiring: said of feeling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Strong; active; -- said especially of morbid states attended with excessive action of the heart and blood vessels, and characterized by strength and activity of the muscular and nervous system.
- adjective See
Stimulism (a).
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- adjective pathology, archaic Characterised by nervous energy.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even more widespread became the theories of a pupil of Cullen's, John Brown, who regarded excitability as the fundamental property of all living creatures: too much of this excitability produced what were known as sthenic maladies, too little, asthenic; on which principles practice was plain enough.
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Even more widespread became the theories of a pupil of Cullen's, John Brown, who regarded excitability as the fundamental property of all living creatures: too much of this excitability produced what were known as sthenic maladies, too little, asthenic; on which principles practice was plain enough.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 William Osler 1884
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When the phenomena are marked it is termed sthenic; when less distinct, as the result of a broken-down and feeble constitution in the animal, it is called asthenic.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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This state is called sthenic diathesis or disease.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784
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The inflammatory state has been called the acute rheumatism, and the other, the chronic rheumatism; I would, however, prefer the terms sthenic and asthenic rheumatism.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784
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This state, which is called sthenic diathesis, is often accompanied by a redness, swelling, pain, and increased heat of some particular part: these symptoms constitute what is usually termed an inflammation of the part.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784
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The resultant outcome of them is in any case what Kant calls a "sthenic" affection, an excitement of the cheerful, expansive, "dynamogenic" order which, like any tonic, freshens our vital powers.
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The quality of life is demonstrably better in a bunch of circumstances, and being fit and sthenic certainly offers options you don't have if you aren't.
Jet Li versus Michelle Yeoh...a missed opportunity Steven Barnes 2008
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He had observed that sthenic patients, when bled, died: the superstition and medical usage of the age prescribed bleeding, and when the fat abbots came to be bled, he bled them freely and with satisfaction.
Satyricon 2007
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The man's form shrank in places, stretched in other places, and when at last the metamorphosis was complete, the sthenic form that stood there was no longer any design of ape.
Conan the Fearless Perry, Steve 1986
whichbe commented on the word sthenic
Relating to or marked by sthenia; strong, vigorous, or active. (The American Heritage Dictionary)
May 17, 2008
yarb commented on the word sthenic
And at night, when Peggy was asleep, he and Tansy would argue, have a moonlight swim, talk some more over a pot of tea about Time, Life, Thomas Mann, Communism, the Partisan Review, the sthenic confusion of technological advance, the responsibilities of education, Peggy's future, Gurko's Angry Decade---
- Malcolm Lowry, Present Estate of Pompeii
July 13, 2008
stuartmathergibson commented on the word sthenic
Relating to or marked by sthenia; strong, vigorous, or active
November 15, 2021