Literary notes about adynamic (AI summary)
The term "adynamic" is commonly used to characterize conditions marked by diminished energy and bodily weakening in clinical discussions. It often appears in descriptions of fevers and related disease states, where it conveys an overall lack of vitality or muscular response. For instance, medical writers distinguish between various forms of fever by noting adynamic characteristics, as seen in discussions of typhoid fever and puerperal conditions ([1], [2]). The word also serves to differentiate states of prostration and general debility from more active or inflammatory conditions, as noted when contrasting adynamic with ataxic forms ([3], [4]). Furthermore, it can refer to a general systemic weakness seen in cachectic conditions and other profound illnesses ([5], [6]). Beyond medicine, "adynamic" even appears in fields such as mechanics to describe systems with little dynamic response ([7]), illustrating the term’s broader application in describing inert or weakened states.
- Consequently the army suffers mostly from diseases of depression,—those of the typhoid, adynamic, and scorbutic types.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various - The Contagious, or Adynamic, Puerperal Fever.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby - To this latter class belong the inflammatory typhus, the nervous or ataxic typhus, the adynamic typhus, and the ataxo-adynamic typhus of Murchison.
— from A System of Practical Medicine. By American Authors. Vol. 1 Pathology and General Diseases - In the ataxo-adynamic form the symptoms of the ataxic and those of the adynamic form are found united.
— from A System of Practical Medicine. By American Authors. Vol. 1 Pathology and General Diseases - They may be produced in that state of the tissues which accompanies certain cachectic and profoundly adynamic conditions, as in severe typhoid fever.
— from A System of Practical Medicine. By American Authors. Vol. 2 General Diseases (Continued) and Diseases of the Digestive System - By weight of herniæ. 3. Impaired Nutrition and General Muscular Weakness, Adynamic dilatation from typhoid fever, tuberculosis, anæmia, etc.
— from A System of Practical Medicine. By American Authors. Vol. 2 General Diseases (Continued) and Diseases of the Digestive System - ; "On Oscillation and Waves in an Adynamic Gyrostatic System" (title only), Proc .
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 by Various
