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Fatigue is a subjective feeling of tiredness or exhaustion or loss of energy in humans.

Contents

• Medical
• Other uses
• See also

Fatigue may also refer to:

Medical

• Central nervous system fatigue, changes in the synaptic concentration of neurotransmitters which affects exercise performance and muscle function
  • Synaptic fatigue
• Chronic fatigue, long-term fatigue that limits a person's energy or ability to carry out daily activities, also known as central fatigue
• Cancer-related fatigue, a side effect of chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and biotherapy
• Compassion fatigue, a lessening of compassion common among those who work with trauma victims
• Muscle fatigue, the decline in ability of a muscle to generate force, also known as peripheral fatigue
• Battle fatigue/Combat fatigue, an outdated term for:
  • Combat stress reaction, a military term for short-term behavioral disorganization
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder, a medical term for a long-term disorder
• Effects of fatigue on safety in transportation and shift work
  • Pilot fatigue
  • Sleep-deprived driving

Other uses

• Fatigue (material), the initiation and propagation of cracks in a material due to cyclic loading
• Voter fatigue, public apathy about elections
• Information fatigue, impairment caused by excessive information
• Fatigue (safety), implications of tiredness in many fields, especially transportation
• Fatigue (album), a 2021 album by L'Rain.
• Fatigue Mountain, on the border of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada
• Fatigue duty, work assigned to military men that does not require the use of armament.

See also

• Fatigues (disambiguation), for topics known by the term fatigues (plural)
• Metal Fatigue (disambiguation)

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