单词 | adynamic |
释义 | adynamicadj. 1. Medicine. a. Originally: resulting in or characterized by weakness or debility (cf. adynamia n.); spec. designating fevers, esp. typhus and typhoid, which have a marked debilitating effect (now rare). In later use: spec. exhibiting, characterized by, or resulting from reduced or absent muscular contraction. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak unmightyeOE unferea1060 unwieldc1220 fade1303 lewc1325 weak1340 fainta1375 sicklyc1374 unwieldyc1386 impotent1390 delicatea1398 lowa1398 unmighta1450 unlustyc1450 low-brought1459 wearyc1480 failed1490 worn1508 caduke?1518 fainty1530 weak1535 debile1536 fluey1545 tewly?1547 faltering1549 puling1549 imbecilec1550 debilitate1552 flash1562 unable1577 unhealthful1595 unabled1597 whindling1601 infirm1608 debilitated1611 bedrid1629 washya1631 silly1636 fluea1645 tender1645 invaletudinary1661 languishant1674 valetudinaire?c1682 puly1688 thriftless1693 unheartya1699 wishy-washy1703 enervate1706 valetudinarian1713 lask1727 wersh1755 palliea1774 wankle1781 asthenic1789 atonic1792 squeal1794 adynamic1803 worn-down1814 totterish1817 asthenical1819 prostrate1820 used up1823 wankya1825 creaky1834 groggy1834 puny1838 imbeciled1840 rickety-rackety1840 muscleless1841 weedy1849 tottery1861 crocky1880 wimbly-wambly1881 ramshackle1889 twitterly1896 twittery1907 wonky1919 strung out1959 1803 Monthly Rev. 40 App. 538 Primitive fevers comprize six orders; Angiotenic, or inflammatory Fevers; Meningogastric, or bilious; Adenomeningeal, or mucous; Adynamic, or putrid; Ataxic, or malignant; Adenonervous, or pestilential. 1830 Westm. Rev. Jan. 208 On account of this debility being an essential character of typhoid fevers, I denominated them adynamic. 1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 39 Action of a poisonous miasma upon an adynamic condition of the system. 1881 Lancet 10 Dec. 994/2 The strychnine seems to have a powerful influence in maintaining the vitality of the patient, and to be especially useful in adynamic cases. 1898 Lancet 24 Dec. 1691/1 Such conditions as favour adynamic dilatability of the chambers of the heart. 1917 Illinois Med. Jrnl. 32 318/1 This is not a death due to the localized peritonitis having become general, but a death due to adynamic ileus. 1950 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 80 2/2 Continuous enteric suction represents a great improvement in treating adynamic intestinal obstruction. 1970 Jrnl. Urol. 103 134 (title) The pathology of the adynamic distal ureteral segment. 2004 Jrnl. Amer. Coll. Cardiol. 43 1866/2 This phenomenon..occurs primarily with evidence of stagnant blood, especially with a large adynamic cardiac chamber. b. Designating bone or bone disorders in which new bone formation is greatly diminished or absent. ΚΠ 1985 Amer. Jrnl. Kidney Dis. 6 333/2 Adynamic bone may represent the histologic consequence of primary reductions in the formation of osteoid in the absence of defective matrix calcification. 1995 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 11 Feb. 359/2 Adynamic bone lesions were diagnosed by the paucity of active bone cells, a normal or decreased osteoid seam width, and a pronounced decrease in the rate of bone formation. 2005 N. D. Tanenbaum & L. D. Quarles in A. Greenberg et al. Primer Kidney Dis. (ed. 4) lxvi. 510/2 In patients with presumed adynamic bone disease, the intact PTH level should be allowed to drift up to levels within target range. 2. Physics. Subject to or involving no net force; not dynamic. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > [adjective] > relating to force in operation > not adynamic1879 adynamical1900 1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §345 The first class of fundamental modes may be called adynamic because they are the same as if no forces were applied to the system, or acted between its moving parts, except actions and reactions in the normals between mutually pressing parts (depending on the inertias of the moving parts). 1894 Nature 18 Jan. 282/2 Lord Kelvin has proposed a gyrostatic adynamic medium which forms an exact representation of a rotationally elastic medium. 1922 Physical Rev. 19 326 The free precession of Euler or the adynamic precession of Kelvin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1803 |
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