(n.) A genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment.
Example Sentences:
(1) We report the results of a longitudinal study of a progressive anomia in a patient with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT).
(2) The extent to which anomia, self-esteem, and life satisfaction are conceptually distinct was studied by using factor analysis of the items from Srole's anomia scale, Rosenberg's scale of self-esteem, and the LSI-Z.
(3) We report a case of "pure alexia" without hemianopia or colour anomia, caused by a small subcortical haematoma in the dorso-lateral part of the occipital lobe, not affecting the splenium of the corpus callosum.
(4) This selective anomia, confined to auditory modality, is discussed in view of the previous researches regarding the general field in naming disturbances, which showed that for the vaste majority of aphasics, anomia was not modality dependent.
(5) An adult patient with literal alexia, agraphia, slight anomia, and dyscalculia due to a left hemisphere infarct showed lack of sequential skills while pattern recognition remained intact.
(6) A 75-year-old right-handed woman, after a probable cerebral infarct, developed an irregular constriction of the visual fields, a left-sided agraphia, and an anomia for objects in the left hand.
(7) The first patient had a 3-year history of progressive anomia and impaired auditory verbal recall.
(8) The occurrence of anomia which particularly affected the category of animals is described in a 12-year-old boy.
(9) The Srole Anomia scale and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem scale were also used.
(10) Thirty-seven aphasic patients whose native language is Spanish were divided into four groups: (1) Broca's, (2) Wernicke's, (3) Conduction, and (4) Anomia.
(11) There were no differences in pattern suggestive of disproportionately severe anomia, amnesia, agnosia, or apraxia in the early onset FAD group, as has been reported previously.
(12) Not only colour anomia, but also object and especially photograph anomia could almost always be shown in alexics and were highly correlated with the degree of the reading impairment.
(13) It is claimed that important new insights into the characteristics of progressive anomia have been obtained by taking a longitudinal approach.
(14) Conversely, mild anomia was found in the native language of a second patient, while global aphasia was found in the secondary language.
(15) The analysis demonstrated that, while the concepts of anomia and self-esteem are distinct, the domain of life satisfaction overlaps those of anomia and self-esteem.
(16) Midteen feelings of anomie and rebellion correlated positively with midteen perception of parent-midteen disagreement about how the midteen should be reared: Anomia r (172) = .25, p less than .01; Rebellion r (172) = .37, p less than .01.
(17) A subject's age did not account for the degree of anomia.
(18) A number of comparisons were made, under the rubrics of success in naming, types of error and response latency, in an attempt to ascertain whether evidence of post-operative anomia could be detected.
(19) Definitions of anomia as a symptom of aphasia have been classified into three categories.
(20) Her anomia shows exceptional features: it occurs in naming tasks in test conditions but not in continuous speech; it involves comprehension deficits but very few semantic errors in expression; it improves with phonemic, but not with semantic cues.
Inability
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being unable; lack of ability; want of sufficient power, strength, resources, or capacity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(2) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
(3) Major limitations of the conventional sperm penetration assay are the inability to assess several aspects of sperm function (zona binding and penetration) and the absence of human ovulatory products known to influence fertilization.
(4) While cells that were treated with antibody were unable to aggregate because of the inability to destroy cAMP, they aggregated normally when washed free of antibody.
(5) Cessation of coital activity was associated with specified types of stress between 65 and 70 years of age in the subgroup of men who had stopped due to inability; six out of eight reported stress against five out of 20 in the C group, P less than 0.05.
(6) The patient was referred to the podiatry department because of continued discomfort and the inability to run.
(7) Localization of the receptor binding domain within the C-terminal region of PA was suggested by the inability of the monoclonal antibodies 3B6 and 14B7 to recognize the recombinant proteins expressed by C-terminal deletions of the pag gene.
(8) The most frequent presentation is the inability to retain the external prosthesis.
(9) Fibroblastic cells were characterized by their spindle shape, content of a mucopolysaccharide, their relative inability to synthesize infectious influenza virus, and production of a cell-associated noninfectious hemagglutinin.
(10) The determination of circulating biologically active PTH in the rat has been difficult due at least in part to the inability to develop an antibody suitable for RIA of rat PTH.
(11) We now provide evidence strongly suggesting that the primary defect in Lec8 and Clone 13 cells is their inability to translocate UDP-galactose into the lumen of the Golgi apparatus.
(12) A major limitation of 3-D CT is its inability to reconstruct the pathology of soft tissues with the same fidelity afforded bony structures.
(13) The researchers suggested that the inability to establish relationships may be due to a function of methods, sample size, or a reflection of a different population.
(14) First, chains are constrained by their inability to penetrate the boundary.
(15) The sequence of the murine protein differs from that of the human protein in 10% of residues, and it may be presumed that some of these differences are responsible for the inability of gibbon ape leukemia virus to infect mouse fibroblasts.
(16) Thus, children's early difficulty in reading may be one sign of a general inability to selectively attend to the parts of any perceptual wholes.
(17) As there is evidence for the relative inability of infants to synthesize taurine, this nitrogen compound has to be wholly supplied by the mother during pregnancy and by diet after birth, particularly for the prematures who have to constitute appreciable reserves in their tissues.
(18) The inability of these young smokers to enhance their mucus clearance by cough suggests a change in the mucociliary apparatus from normal.
(19) An additional 17 patients considered highly in need of treatment met criteria for commitment based on inability to care for self, but most were hospitalized voluntarily.
(20) Phosphoglyceride and triacylglycerol biosynthesis in glycerol kinase deficiency fibroblasts is not diminished by the inability to use glycerol as a precursor of glycerol 3-phosphate.