title: Fatigue (disambiguation)
text: # Fatigue (disambiguation)
  
  Fatigue is a subjective feeling of tiredness and exhaustion in humans.
  
  Fatigue or fatigues 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  * Battle fatigue/Combat fatigue, an outdated term for: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 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.
  * Fatigues (uniform), a military work uniform
     * Plain OG-107 uniform in American English
     * Boilersuits worn by soldiers to avoid getting their uniforms dirty in non-combat manual work
     * Camouflage pattern on military or fashion clothing
  * Fatigues, a more general term for workwear
  * "The Fatigues", a Seinfeld episode
  