What's the difference between debilitation and enfeeblement?
Debilitation
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The early death of PL mice is related to generalized debilitation from prolonged distal colonic obstruction resulting in a decrease in immunologic integrity and an increased susceptibility to sepsis.
(2) We have modified one of these operations in order to manage debilitating aspiration in a 14-year-old boy.
(3) The clinical and laboratory findings indicate that infections occurred in debilitated as well as nondebilitated individuals.
(4) Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) increases risk, which means that women who take it will need to balance the breast cancer risk against the sometimes distressing and debilitating symptoms of the menopause.
(5) The progressive assumption of personal responsibility for the debilitative mood state is accompanied by a corresponding shift in a locus of control set from externality to internality.
(6) Endocarcial pacing is reserved for the very aged and debilitated patients, patients requiring implantation within 4 to 6 weeks of acute myocardial infarction, and for atrial or atrioventricular sequential pacing.
(7) The water-soluble contrast medium used so far appears to be in need of improvement in respect of "x-ray density", viscosity and osmolarity, the more so since the danger of aspiration is high in the postoperative, debilitated patient.
(8) This block provides profound anesthesia with minimal risk in debilitated, high-risk patients.
(9) The results indicate that many of these symptoms were persistent 18 months later and continued to be significantly debilitating.
(10) Although definitive therapy may need to be delayed and further surgery performed, this is more acceptable in the face of life-threatening disease than the consequences of unnecessary gynecologic surgery or debilitation.
(11) Bacterial infections (27%) and parasitism (27%) were also of major importance in the death and debilitation of Oregon marine mammals.
(12) Four had preceding trauma (ischiorectal abscess, puncture wound, surgery) and four had pre-existing debilitating problems (diabetes, rectal carcinoma, acute lymphocytic leukemia, alcoholic cirrhosis).
(13) The bovine immunodeficiency-like virus (BIV) is morphologically, serologically, and genetically related to the lentivirus subfamily of retroviruses which includes human and simian immunodeficiency viruses and other lentiviruses causally associated with debilitating diseases of domestic animals.
(14) Generalized enlargement of the cortical sulci and ventricles (pattern C) probably reflected atrophic changes from the chronic human immunodeficiency virus infection and prolonged debilitating illness.
(15) Illness in several infants was protracted and debilitating because of the relapsing nature of the infection.
(16) TSD rats had not shown similarly low Tb until just prior to death, but had shown signs of severe pathology, including severely debilitated appearance, disheveled fur, and severe lesions on their tails and on the plantar surfaces of their paws.
(17) Cryptococcosis in patients with the syndrome is a debilitating disease that does not respond to conventional therapy; earlier diagnosis or long-term suppressive therapy may improve the prognosis.
(18) Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is one of the major chronic debilitating diseases frequently seen in hospital settings.
(19) IORT presents several challenges to the anesthesiologist, including patients who are debilitated from their disease or chemotherapy, operations involving major tumor resections, intraoperative interdepartmental transport of patients, and remote monitoring of patients during electron beam therapy.
(20) The presence of functional debilitation or dementia was associated with a lower likelihood of non-elective readmission compared with the absence of these conditions.
Enfeeblement
Definition:
(n.) The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prime minister, who was bounced into setting up the inquiry by Labour’s Ed Miliband and the Lib Dems’ Nick Clegg, now has a parliamentary majority and doesn’t need to worry about an enfeebled opposition.
(2) Occupy the SEC , a working group of Occupy Wall Street that includes former financial industry professionals and lawyers, sent a 325 page letter to the SEC outlining in detail how they felt the rule had been enfeebled.
(3) Had that argument been true, British businesses would be in leonine form by now, instead of their current chronic enfeeblement.
(4) It was considered as likely that the Delirium metabolicum represented an exogenous (organic) psychotic syndrome, and that the precipitation of the psychosis as well as its development into an enfeebled endstate was due to an organic brain lesion, while the catatoniformpsychomotor phenomena and the melancholic stupor were crystalisations of traits in the premorbid personality.
(5) Michael Heseltine, the former deputy prime minister, said May’s government was enfeebled and deeply divided.
(6) With the economy in its current enfeebled state, there are some in the City who think the total could hit £500bn before the Bank is done.
(7) Giving up the nuclear deterrent would be a “reckless gamble, that would enfeeble our allies and embolden our enemies”, she will say.
(8) Consultation over the Transfer of Undertakings Regulations (Tupe), which protect employees' terms and conditions of employment when a business is transferred from one owner to another, and the already enfeebled Public Sector Equality Duty are also under way, disguised as measures to cut red tape.
(9) Two patients presented with local disorders caused by the removal of veins from the upper limbs, including hypoesthesia of the forearm in one case and anesthesia associated with regressive muscle enfeeblement in the other.
(10) Lord Heseltine told the World at One: “So you have an enfeebled government.
(11) Everywhere you looked, the on-screen aristocrats were revealed as misguided or enfeebled; their power waning, their subjects in revolt.
(12) Few policymakers in the EU would be willing to do Cameron any favours, resulting in an enfeebled, lonelier Britain.
(13) Nor do I wish to swap one stereotype – the enfeebled older worker – for another, all serenity and wisdom.
(14) Even in its enfeebled state, Ireland clung on yesterday to its 12.5% corporation tax rate .
(15) That August of 1943, Monnet also decided that European states would be so enfeebled after the war that they must unite into a federation.
(16) Even allowing for the impact of Buchanan’s rhetoric, displayed in a succession of interviews, it was probably unhelpful that his laments about enfeebled men, in contrast to women’s status as “divine creatures”, coincided with repeated evidence that it is apt to be the other way around.
(17) The talk among policymakers in European capitals struggling to counter what they see as the slick Kremlin operations aimed at dividing and enfeebling Europe is of “Putin’s useful idiots”.
(18) The towers debate is really the most conspicuous symptom of a bigger issue, which is the enfeeblement of planning in London.
(19) However, any form of surgery may be contra-indicated in a patient enfeebled by prolonged immobilisation from involvement of multiple joints.
(20) With an enfeebled Labour party, whose leader, Jeremy Corbyn, could not even decide at the weekend whether or not to support a second independence vote, it was easy for Ms Sturgeon to warn that the Tories could be in power at Westminster for another 10, maybe even 15, years.