adj
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Meanings
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adj
historical medicine: relating to or affected by neurasthenia, a diagnosis involving fatigue, weakness, and nervous symptoms
The physician described the exhausted patient as neurasthenic.
Etymology
From neurasthenia + -ic or neur- + asthenia + -ic. By surface analysis, neur- (“nerve”) + a- (“not”) + sthen- (“strength”) + -ic (“adjective suffix”).