anapeiratic

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anapeiratic (not comparable)

  1. Caused by prolonged exercise of a muscle.
    • 1895, Maryland Medical Journal - Volume 32, page 471:
      Anapeiratic paralyses are those due to excessive use of certain muscles.
    • 1888, John Chester, Ruth, the Christian Scientist: Or, The New Hygeia, page 290:
      "It is," said Dr. Buccom, " what Dr. Hammond terms anapeiratic paralysis, where the organs most used are the ones affected, such as writer's or telegrapher's paralysis."
    • 1970, Maurice Duggan, O'Leary's orchard and other stories, page 167:
      A somewhat randydandy in the past I came by the usual passes and frenzies and anapeiratic fatigue to that final pass and found myself in harness with a woman for whom, the long and lively honeymoon over, I not only had no desire but had also no patience, neither, even experiencing (a luxury for Riley) a positive sexual aversion.