The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
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Alt. of Astheny
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Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital forces.
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Alt. of Cachexy
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A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or…
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The quality or state of being sickly.
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of Waste
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The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.
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The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness.
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Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
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Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
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The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor.
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Frailty.
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The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or se…
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The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infir…
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The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a le…
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The condition of a valetudinarian; a state of feeble health; infirmity.
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