What's the difference between affliction and infirmity?

Affliction


Definition:

  • (n.) The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief.
  • (n.) The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It afflicted 312,000 people and claimed 3200 lives.
  • (2) Similar tensions afflict the US political scene, where anti-immigrant and anti-trade rhetoric have been prominent from the start of the current presidential election round.
  • (3) The treatment of the handicapped is discussed in the light of the alterations by which they are most commonly afflicted.
  • (4) However, we very often noted certain characteristics of personality structure and social attitude in the patients afflicted with the disease.
  • (5) A child afflicted with atopic dermatitis developed a Kaposi-Juliusberg's syndrome.
  • (6) By comparison, our patient was afflicted at a considerably older age.
  • (7) Above all, MPs should vote to stop needless misery for families afflicted by this rare but terrible disorder.
  • (8) A significant part of his work on surgery consists of early descriptions of neurosurgical diagnosis and treatment, including the surgical treatment of head injuries and skull fractures, spinal injuries and dislocations, hydrocephalus and subdural effusions, headache, and many other medical afflictions.
  • (9) A total of 65 students and one female teacher were afflicted with an unusual illness following alleged inhalation of a 'gas' in the school.
  • (10) Caucasians were almost exclusively afflicted by this form of cancer (93% of this series).
  • (11) Of those who died before the age of 83, 11 per cent were afflicted with dementia, with a further 4 per cent in the early stages, and 17 per cent had other mental problems.
  • (12) The life within a family of a Rett syndrome child is usually in a constant state of changing emotion due to the overwhelming responsibility of caring for the afflicted child and meeting the needs of the remaining family.
  • (13) A combination of techniques is necessary to diagnose, and both surgical and medical approaches are needed to treat this often distressingly persistent affliction.
  • (14) Glomerulonephritis caused end-stage renal disease in Navajos at a rate at least 1.8 times that in US whites and afflicted a much younger population.
  • (15) The observation of a young north african afflicted with a tic disorder suggests an underlying meaning in the apparently confused motoric discharges, thanks to psychodrama and to ethnopsychoanalytic consultations with the family.
  • (16) None of those concerns, though, afflicted Jeremy Darroch, the chief executive of BSkyB, who emailed Sky News staff telling them the compromise was a "good outcome" that would maintain "long-term continuity".
  • (17) Using brains of English setter dogs afflicted with a form of this disorder, the autofluorescent storage granules have been isolated and subjected to extraction with chloroform-methanol.
  • (18) Other afflictions, such as broncho-pulmonary cancer, are beginning to cause problems.
  • (19) Physical medicine and rehabilitation measures are important components of the challenging treatment of patients of all age groups who are afflicted with severe arthritis.
  • (20) Since 1985, we have provided coordinated DNA-based and cytogenetic prenatal analysis for couples at risk for offspring afflicted with the fragile X [fra(X)] syndrome.

Infirmity


Definition:

  • (a.) The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind.
  • (a.) A personal frailty or failing; foible; eccentricity; a weakness or defect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The thrust of health care "solutions" in the press and in Congress focus on the infirm.
  • (2) Those allocated a diagnosis of dementia were most impaired and confused, and those living in specialist homes for the mentally infirm were more impaired than other residents.
  • (3) Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe I is for Italy He lived for many years in a mountain-top retreat in Ravello on the Amalfi coast until he became too infirm to cope with the hills.
  • (4) Anyone who is pregnant, breastfeeding or infirm should talk to a GP before taking the herb.
  • (5) The cell bodies of the AVCN did not seem altered infirming a rapid, direct or indirect, neurotoxic effect of the drug.
  • (6) This paper describes one of the first attempts at an economic evaluation of a community care initiative for elderly mentally infirm people and their carers.
  • (7) It appears to become more severe with advanced age and other infirmities, such as immobility.
  • (8) It was one of at least half a dozen such unionist experiments, with a variety of partners, which foundered on the rocks of the would-be partners' infirmity of purpose, fear, suspicion and disdain of this bizarre, arrogant, impetuous upstart.
  • (9) While the courts welcome Russian oligarchs whose disputes have nothing to do with this country, they close their doors to the cheated, the battered and the infirm from the native poor.
  • (10) Swing your gaze from the aged and infirm to your fit and healthy peers here and abroad embracing fascism and poor-bashing.
  • (11) Other factors included pre-existing locomotor disorder or mental infirmity, unmanageable incontinence of urine after catheterisation, and institutional disorientation.
  • (12) The increasing infirmity of the aged often associated with tiredness, dyspnea and dizziness even without treatment requires careful instruction of the patient about effects and side effects of the prescribed medication.
  • (13) 11.01am BST Lord Norman Tebbit , the Tory former cabinet minister, says he worries such a bill would bring great pressure on the old, infirm or disabled to consider ending their lives so as to not be a financial burden on others.
  • (14) If "pain" in the broad sense of the term lends itself to objective evaluation with difficulty, it is not the same with respect to infirmity.
  • (15) The results of one such arrangement where a geriatrician was involved in the weekly review of the elderly mentally infirm patients are described.
  • (16) The dual rating system eliminates the problem of declining knee scores associated with patient infirmity.
  • (17) Neurotic applicants for an infirmity-pension belong to the group of problem patients for attending general practitioners and specialists alike.
  • (18) Please do not let us remember only the sick and infirm.
  • (19) Yet every local authority in the land allows men like these as well as our sick, elderly and infirm to be left to the tender mercies of profiteers and cowboys.
  • (20) Now staff and volunteers hunched over the infirm, dispensing sips of water and fanning them with bits of cardboard.