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weakness; feebleness; languor. The inconveniences of too strong a perspiration, which are debility, faintness, and sometimes sudden death. Arbuthnot.

A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.

Characterized by abirritation or debility.

Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever. Dunglison.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.

Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital forces.

Characterized by, or pertaining to, debility; weak; debilitating.

Profound debility of children due to lack of food and to unhygienic surroundings. --A*threp"tic (#), a.

a, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.

Recovering from siclness or debility; partially restored to health or strength.

Debility.

The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.

fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient. Hectic fever (Med.), a fever of irritation and debility, occurring usually at a advanced stage of exhausting disease, as a in pulmonary consumption.

ctions are performed with difficulty, and only by a strong exertion of the will; languor; debility; weariness. The corporeal instruments of action being strained to a high pitch . . . will soon feel a lassitude. Barrow.

A condition of nervous debility supposed to be dependent upon impairment in the functions of the spinal cord.

To make fit or susceptible beforehand; to give a tendency to; as, debility predisposes the body to disease. Predisposing causes (Med.), causes which render the body liable to disease; predisponent causes.

all the mucous membranes. It is accompanied by paleness, languor, depression, and general debility. It is occasioned by confinement, innutritious food, and hard labor, but especially by lack of fresh vegetable food, or confinement for a long time to a limited range of food, which is incapable of repairing the waste of…

ing, as of bodily pleasure or pain. The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation. Buckminster.

Increasing strength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring heatly functions. Tononic spasm. (Med.) See the Note under Spasm.

diarrhæa with evacuations resembling pea soup in appearance, and prostration and muscular debility, gradually increasing and often becoming profound at the acme of the disease. Its local lesions are a scanty eruption of spots, resembling flea bites, on the belly, enlargement of the spleen, and ulceration of the intesti…