neurasthenia
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Among such groups of ailments are: Neurasthenia or nervous prostration.
From Time Magazine Archive
Neurasthenia is certainly an “undertaking,” therefore it must be a job—a big one at that.
From Confessions of a Neurasthenic by Marrs, William Taylor
Neurasthenia, from the Greek roots, neur, meaning nerve, and sthenos, strength, joined by the negative particle a, turning strength into weakness, means nothing more than nervous weakness.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
Neurasthenia and Melancholia.—A serious mistake of diagnosis, though it is often not a mistake of knowledge but of medical judgment, is the confusion, apparent or real, of neurasthenia with melancholia.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
We seem to take part in a strange, painful revel; a witches' revel of ardent yet withered sorceresses; a revel in which the modern demons of Neurasthenia and Hysteria sport and sneer.
From The Dangerous Age by Michaëlis, Karin
Vocabulary lists containing neurasthenia
Body Parts: Neur ("Nerve")
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