noun
- Lack of energy or vigor; listlessness or apathy.
- In medicine, a state of reduced or absent immune response to an antigen.
Usage: general use
Usage: medical/immunology
Examples
- After weeks of illness, she felt a deep anergia that made even simple tasks seem impossible.
- The patient's anergia prevented him from engaging in his usual hobbies and social activities.
- Researchers studied anergia in cancer patients to understand why some tumors evade the immune system.
- Depression often manifests as anergia, leaving sufferers unmotivated and exhausted.
- The drug's side effects included anergia and difficulty concentrating.
- Anergia can be a symptom of various conditions, from chronic fatigue syndrome to autoimmune disorders.