An archaic diagnostic term, probably coined by Beard, to designate a syndrome of nervous weakness or exhaustion manifested by symptoms including fatigue, anxiety, depression, headache and other nospecific pain.
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neurasthenia
(Beard's disease, neuradynamia, nervous asthenia, nervous debility, nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, nervous weakness, névrospasmie, ponopathy)