单词 | anergy |
释义 | anergyn. 1. Chiefly Psychiatry. Loss or lack of mental or physical energy, esp. as manifested in inactivity or disinclination to act; = anergia n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > mental prostration or paralysis amazec1425 amazedness?1520 amazement1553 astonishment1611 mopedness1660 anergia1874 anergy1890 punch-drunkenness1928 slug-nuttiness1943 1890 C. A. Mercier Sanity & Insanity ix. 238 Undue frequency of sexual congress is not attended in the female by the same ill results that follow it in the male. In the latter, the repeated loss of energy eventuates at last in a state of anergy, apathy, lethargy, and dementia. 1908 L. P. Clark & A. R. Diefendorf Neurol. & Mental Diagnosis 95 Thus, anergy can be determined not only by watching the patient's voluntary movements, but also his reaction to a request to perform some duty or his response to the dinner call. 1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 1325/2 The most common post-partum disability was a syndrome of malaise, anergy, backache and fatigue—general debility. 2013 J. Glover & S. Srinivasan in W. V. McCall Late Life Depression 549 She is referred by her primary care physician because of anergy, fatigue, and anhedonia, as well as complaints of memory loss. 2. Immunology. Failure or impairment of an immune response.Used esp. with reference to delayed hypersensitivity reactions, as in skin testing with tuberculin and other antigens. ΚΠ 1909 C. von Pirquet in A. C. Klebs Tuberculosis iii. Introd. 146 Anergy.—In this direction the influence of measles is best known. 1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 8 Feb. 298/1 For more than 30 years physicians have witnessed anergy to antigens of Mycobacterium leprae..among patients with lepromatous leprosy. 1983 Observer 7 Aug. 4/5 About half of that group were also suffering from anergy, a lack of response to certain infectious agents. 2011 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 204 327/2 A negative tuberculin skin test indicating anergy seems to have been present in 3 of 18 patients. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1890 |
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