ANATOMY
MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SOFT TISSUE
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the suffix asthenia means
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growth
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weakness
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surgical fixation
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break
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Listen to pronunciation. (as-THEE-nee-uh) Weakness; lack of energy and strength.
Detailed explanation-2: -Myasthenia refers to a loss of muscle strength, as in myasthenia gravis. Asthenia is from the Greek asthenes, from a-(without) + sthenos (strength).
Detailed explanation-3: -Prefix. astheno-(anatomy) asthenia; weakness.
Detailed explanation-4: -asthenia, a condition in which the body lacks strength or has lost strength, either as a whole or in any of its parts. General asthenia occurs in many chronic wasting diseases, such as anemia and cancer, and is probably most marked in diseases of the adrenal gland.
Detailed explanation-5: -or aes·the·sia capacity for sensation or feeling; sensitivity.
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