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  • 61Jessner, Leopold — (1878 1945)    Director. Jessner was best known for his work during the Weimar Republic, when he was appointed intendant of the Prussian State Theater, the tradition bound, Karl Friedrich Schinkel designed Royal Theater on Gendarme Square near… …

    Historical dictionary of German Theatre

  • 62νευρασθενής — ές (ως επίθ. και ως ουσ.) αυτός που πάσχει από νευρασθένεια, ο νευρασθενικός. [ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. Αντιδάνεια λ., πρβλ. αγγλ. neurasthenic < νευρ(ο) * + ασθενής. Η λ. μαρτυρείται από το 1894 στην εφημερίδα Άστυ] …

    Dictionary of Greek

  • 63invalid — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I adj. void, null, worthless, useless, valueless, unusable. See nullification. II n. sufferer, patient, case, shut in; cripple. adj. sickly, ill, unhealthy, unwell, weak. See disease. II (Roget s IV)… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 64palsied — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. disabled, paralyzed, paralytic, neurasthenic, weak, debilitated, atonic, helpless, tremorous, trembling, tremulous, shaking, diseased; see also sick …

    English dictionary for students

  • 65НЕВРАСТЕНИЯ — (neurasthenia) ряд психологических и физических симптомов, в том числе повышенная утомляемость, раздражительность, головная боль, головокружение, повышенное беспокойство и непереносимость шума. Неврастения может быть вызвана каким либо… …

    Толковый словарь по медицине

  • 66Cohl, Emile — (Emile Courtet / January 4, 1857, Paris, France January 20, 1938, Villejuif, Val de Marne, France)    A former apprentice jeweler and illusionist, he be­came a caricaturist and led a bohemian lifestyle in Montmartre. Thanks to his master and… …

    Encyclopedia of French film directors

  • 67neurasthenia — (n.) nervous exhaustion, 1854, medical Latin, from neur (form of NEURO (Cf. neuro ) before a vowel) + asthenia, from Gk. aisthesis feeling, from PIE root *au to perceive (see AUDIENCE (Cf. audience)). Related: Neurasthenic …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 68Neurasthenia and George Miller Beard —    (from 1869)    Although New York electrotherapist George Beard (1839–1883) did not coin the term neurasthenia meaning literally tired nerves he launched it on its century long worldwide trajectory. A graduate of the College of Physicians and… …

    Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

  • 69neurasthenia — [ˌnjʊərəs θi:nɪə] noun dated a condition of lassitude, fatigue, headache, and irritability, typically ascribed to emotional disturbance. Derivatives neurasthenic adjective &noun …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 70invalid — I n 1. sickly person, infirm person, convalescent, shut in, valetudinarian; patient, inpatient, outpatient, case; the sick, the infirm, the handicapped; sufferer, carrier, cripple, incurable, victim; hypochondriac, Pathol. neurasthenic,… …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder