sthenic

[ sthen-ik ]

adjective

1. sturdy; heavily and strongly built.

sthenic

/ ˈsθɛnɪk /

adjective

1. abounding in energy or bodily strength; active or strong

Word History and Origins

Origin of sthenic¹

First recorded in 1780–90; extracted from asthenic

Word History and Origins

Origin of sthenic¹

C18: from New Latin sthenicus, from Greek sthenos force, on the model of asthenic

Example Sentences

The sthenic inflammations take place in robust individuals with powerful hearts and an abundant supply of blood.

From Project Gutenberg

The sthenic form of inflammation was most commonly associated with pneumonia, where the obstruction to the passage of blood through the lungs was an important cause of the superficial injection of the blood-vessels.

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It is evident that venesection, which was necessary for procuring the living blood for analysis, would only be performed when the type of the disease authorized it—that is, when the type was sthenic; whereas the blood examined after death had necessarily undergone changes which tended to, if they did not actually, occasion death.

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It may be said, in general terms, to be variable in rate and strength even in the most sthenic cases of the disease, and in those which tend to a fatal issue to be small, thready, weak, intermittent, or imperceptible for a longer or shorter time before death.

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Our own experience would lead us to conclude that in the more sthenic cases scarified cups, applied to the nape of the neck and along the cervical vertebr�, are of essential service in mitigating—and generally, indeed, in wholly removing—the neuralgic pains which form so prominent and severe a symptom in many cases of this disease.

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