What's the difference between condition and deafness?

Condition


Definition:

  • (n.) Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.
  • (n.) Essential quality; property; attribute.
  • (n.) Temperament; disposition; character.
  • (n.) That which must exist as the occasion or concomitant of something else; that which is requisite in order that something else should take effect; an essential qualification; stipulation; terms specified.
  • (n.) A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend.
  • (v. i.) To make terms; to stipulate.
  • (v. i.) To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
  • (n.) To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of.
  • (n.) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
  • (n.) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college; as, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study.
  • (n.) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
  • (n.) train; acclimate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) F(420) is photolabile aerobically in neutral and basic solutions, whereas the acid-stable chromophore is not photolabile under these conditions.
  • (2) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
  • (3) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
  • (4) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
  • (5) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
  • (6) Electronmicroscopical investigations have revealed that, under normal conditions, a minor vesicular transfer of intravenously injected peroxidase occurs across the endothelium in segments of arterioles, capillaries and venules, especially in arterioles with a diameter about 15-30 mu.
  • (7) Among the migrants from the regions with contrasting climatic conditions.
  • (8) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
  • (9) The data indicate that ebselen is likely to be useful in the therapy of inflammatory conditions in which reactive oxygen species, such as peroxides, play an aetiological role.
  • (10) Whether hen's egg yolk can be used as a sperm motility stimulant in the treatment of such conditions as asthenospermia and oligospermia is subjected for further study.
  • (11) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
  • (12) The purpose of the present study was to report on remaining teeth and periodontal conditions in a population of 200 adolescent and adult Vietnamese refugees.
  • (13) Under blood preservation conditions the difference of the rates of ATP-production and -consumption is the most important factor for a high ATP-level over long periods.
  • (14) Western blot analysis of these mitochondria using an antibody against carnitine palmitoyltransferase II purified from beef heart demonstrates a 68-kDa protein, which under ischemic conditions apparently is decreased by 2 kDa.
  • (15) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
  • (16) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
  • (17) In each study, all subjects underwent four replications (over two days) of one of the six permutations of the three experimental conditions; each condition lasted 5 min.
  • (18) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
  • (19) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
  • (20) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.

Deafness


Definition:

  • (n.) Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing.
  • (n.) Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 23 years old woman with sudden deafness and ipsilateral lack of rapid phase caloric nystagmus was described.
  • (2) About one out of three profoundly deaf children has an autosomal recessive form of inherited deafness.
  • (3) The present study examines kinematic details of the laryngeal articulatory gesture in 2 deaf speakers and a control subject using transillumination of the larynx.
  • (4) There is no reason to describe deafness and deafmutism in an area with severe endemic goitre as a separate entity.
  • (5) The next implanted device will have: a. constant current; b. programming of a particular current value for each electrode; and c. stimulation of the cochlear nerve through an extra cochlear electrode bearer, allowing deep implantation without deafness.
  • (6) Bangkok Centre serves the Asian countries on the Global Programme on Prevention of Hearing Impairment and Deafness.
  • (7) We performed light and electron microscopic studies on the temporal bones of a patient with genetic aplastic deafness, in which the right ear had a Mondini-type defect and the left ear a Michel-type anomaly.
  • (8) Prenatal causes of sensorineural hearing loss in children may be genetic or nongenetic, the deafness occurs alone or with other abnormalities.
  • (9) Such conditions may influence the personality of offspring of deaf-mute people.
  • (10) Progressive unilateral sensorineural deafness and tinnitus developed in a 59-year-old woman over a 1-year period.
  • (11) Older hearing controls (14-16 years) matched the deaf group in span and tended to recall most accurately written syllables which are not easily lipread.
  • (12) Results from 12 diagnostic subtests obtained by Van Uden's sample of profoundly deaf children and a Manchester sample with wider ranges of age and hearing loss were analysed by the Q-technique of factor analysis.
  • (13) This group is analysed and it is suggested that some may be diagnosed as suffering from central deafness.
  • (14) Two patients, presenting with signs and symptoms of cerebellar dysfunction, later developed evidence of brain-stem disease with dysarthria, nystagmus, deafness, and internuclear ophthalmoplegia.
  • (15) On the other hand, if past experience is anything to go by, this government isn’t shy of a U-turn ; and, if Whittingdale and his advisers aren’t completely deaf, they may at least detect that he would do well to keep the relish out of his voice as he announces the steps he intends to take.
  • (16) Vestibular destruction was associated with deafness in only 3 of the patients.
  • (17) Chronic serous otitis media was a frequent finding but deafness was rarely profound.
  • (18) Especially the erectile tissue of the submandibular and parotic glands and recidiving sudden deafness are discussed.
  • (19) We discuss these findings in relation to pathologic observations in other reported cases of congenital deafness.
  • (20) These supplementary criteria should make identification simple, allow an abnormal response to be recognized and indications for treatment of the temporary deafness to be better defined.

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