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Name of Symptom/Sign:
Asthenia
Classifications and external resources
ICD-10R53
ICD-9780.7
Asthenia (Greek: ασθένεια, lit. lack of strength but also disease) is a medical term denoting a feeling of weakness without actual loss of strength.

Causes of asthenia

The condition is commonly seen in patients suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, sleep disorders or chronic disorders of the heart, lungs or kidneys. Differentiating between asthenia and true muscular weakness is often difficult, and in time asthenia in chronic disorders is seen to progress into a primary weakness. Also a condition in which the body lacks 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. Asthenia may be limited to certain organs or systems of organs, as in asthenopia, characterized by ready fatiguability.

Common causes of asthenia

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References

  • Adapted from: Hinshaw DB, Carnahan JM, Johnson DL. Depression, anxiety, and asthenia in advanced illness. J Am Coll Surg 2002;195:276.
The term symptom (from the Greek σύμπτωμα meaning 'chance', 'mishap' or 'casualty', itself derived from συμπιπτω
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Simply, a sign is an indication of some fact or quality; and, in everyday English, a medical sign is an "objective" indication of some medical fact or quality that is detected by a physician during a physical examination of a patient—such as elevated
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The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (most commonly known by the abbreviation ICD
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List of ICD-10 codes. The version for 2007 is available online at [1]

Chapter Blocks Title
I Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
II Neoplasms
III Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism
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The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (most commonly known by the abbreviation ICD
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The following is a list of codes for International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. These codes are in the public domain.

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Writing system: Greek alphabet 
Official status
Official language of:  Greece
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Muscle weakness
Classification & external resources

ICD-10 M62.8
ICD-9 728.87 ( 728.9 before 10/01/03)

DiseasesDB 22832

MeSH D018908 Muscle weakness
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Muscle weakness
Classification & external resources

ICD-10 M62.8
ICD-9 728.87 ( 728.9 before 10/01/03)

DiseasesDB 22832

MeSH D018908 Muscle weakness
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Muscle weakness
Classification & external resources

ICD-10 M62.8
ICD-9 728.87 ( 728.9 before 10/01/03)

DiseasesDB 22832

MeSH D018908 Muscle weakness
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organ (Latin: organum, "instrument, tool") is a group of tissues that perform a specific function or group of functions. Usually there is a main tissue and sporadic tissues. The main tissue is the one that is unique for the specific organ.
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Asthenopia
Classification & external resources

ICD-10 H53.1
ICD-9 368.13

Asthenopia is an ophthalmological condition that manifests itself through nonspecific symptoms such as fatigue, red eyes, eye strain, pain in or around the eyes, blurred
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Addison's disease
Classification & external resources

ICD-10 E 27.1 -E 27.2
ICD-9 255.4

DiseasesDB 222
MedlinePlus 000378
eMedicine med/42  
MeSH D000224 Addison's disease (also known as chronic adrenal insufficiency
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Anemia
Classification & external resources

ICD-10 D 50. -D 64.
ICD-9 280 - 285

DiseasesDB 663
MedlinePlus 000560
eMedicine med/132   emerg/808 emerg/734
MeSH D000740

Anemia (AmE) or anæmia/anaemia
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Anxiety is a physiological state characterized by cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components (Seligman, Walker & Rosenhan, 2001). These components combine to create the feelings that we typically recognize as fear, apprehension, or worry.
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Chemotherapy is the use of chemical substances to treat disease. In its modern-day use, it refers to cytotoxic drugs used to treat cancer or the combination of these drugs into a standardized treatment regimen.
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Chronic fatigue syndrome/ myalgic encephalomyelitis
Classification & external resources

ICD-10 G 93.3
ICD-9 780.71

DiseasesDB 1645
MedlinePlus 001244
eMedicine med/3392   ped/2795
MeSH D015673 Chronic fatigue syndrome (
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Chronic pain was originally defined as pain that has lasted 6 months or longer. More recently it has been defined as pain that persists longer than the temporal course of natural healing, associated with a particular type of injury or disease process.
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Dehydration
Classification & external resources

ICD-10 E 86.
ICD-9 276.5

Dehydration (hypohydration) is the removal of water (hydro in ancient Greek) from an object.
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Electrolytes play a vital role in maintaining homeostasis within the body. They help to regulate myocardial and neurological function, fluid balance, oxygen delivery, acid-base balance and much more.
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Depression
Classification & external resources

ICD-10 F 32. , F 33.
ICD-9 296

OMIM 608516
DiseasesDB 3589
MedlinePlus 003213
eMedicine med/532  

Clinical depression (also called major-depressive disorder, or
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Diabetes mellitus
Classification & external resources

ICD-10 E 10. –E 14.
ICD-9 250

MedlinePlus 001214
eMedicine med/546   emerg/134

MeSH C18.452.394.
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Fibromyalgia
Classification & external resources

ICD-10 M 79.7
ICD-9 729.1

MedlinePlus 000427
eMedicine med/790   med/2934 ped/777 pmr/47
MeSH D005356 Fibromyalgia
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Heart disease is an umbrella term for a number of different diseases which affect the heart and as of 2007 it is the leading cause of death in the United States.[1]

Types of heart disease

Cardiomyopathy


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Hypothyroidism
Classification & external resources

Triiodothyronine, the most active form of thyroid hormone
ICD-10 E 03.9
ICD-9 244.9

DiseasesDB 6558

eMedicine med/1145  
MeSH D007037 Hypothyroidism
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An infection is the detrimental colonization of a host organism by a foreign species. In an infection, the infecting organism seeks to utilize the host's resources to multiply (usually at the expense of the host).
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A medication, medicine or drug is any substance or combination of substances administered to human beings or animals to treat or prevent disease; alternatively to assist in medical diagnosis.
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narcotic (ναρκωτικός) is believed to have been coined by Galen to refer to agents that benumb or deaden, causing loss of feeling or paralysis.
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Paraneoplastic syndrome
Classification & external resources

DiseasesDB 2064

eMedicine med/1747  
MeSH D010257

A paraneoplastic syndrome
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Pregnancy is the carrying of one or more offspring, known as a fetus or embryo, inside the body of a female mammal such as a human. In a pregnancy, there can be multiple gestations (for example, in the case of twins or triplets).
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