Med. [mod. L. a. Gr. ἀδυναμία, f. ἀ priv. + δύναμις power.] The want of vital power, which accompanies some fevers; physical prostration.
1830. Westm. Rev., On Fever, XII. 204. The Adynamia of the Borough has not only crept over London, but is groping its way into the outskirts of the British empire.
1875. Wood, Therap. (1879), 659. The serious lung-affections of low fevers are, however, largely dependent upon the general adynamia, and this adynamia is, in turn, largely the result of the excessive temperature.
