(n.) That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc.
(n.) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
(v. t.) To do injury to; to hurt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Structurally altered polymorphic variants with reduced activity, such as tetrameric interface mutant Ile-58 to Thr, may produce not only an early selective advantage, through enhanced cytotoxicity of tumor necrosis factor for virus-infected cells, but also detrimental effects from increased mitochondrial oxidative damage, contributing to degenerative conditions, including diabetes, aging, and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
(2) Samaras said: A "Grexit", as it is called, would be devastating for Greece and detrimental to Europe.
(3) The striking improvements in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in diabetic and non-diabetic Aborigines after a temporary reversion to a traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle highlight the potentially reversible nature of the detrimental effects of lifestyle change, particularly in young people who have not yet developed diabetes.
(4) A murine model system was developed to determine whether ionizing radiation has a detrimental influence on thymic epithelium, cell function.
(5) The aim of this study was determine if functional adaptation of NHP and HB position to these detrimental conditions could be observed, using Bonferonni probabilities, in a cephalometric comparison of 38 SAS adults in the wakeful state and a control group of 38 healthy adults.
(6) Together, they dispel the myth that changing initial responses more often is detrimental than beneficial.
(7) Also, studies on the simulated cumulative effect of background radiation during storage failed to find any detrimental effect when embryos were exposed to the equivalent of about 2000 years of background radiation.
(8) The author then describes new approaches to improving the vocational integration of persons with epilepsy, by focussing on the one hand on extending the range of occupational assessment, and the adoption of new job placement assessment, and the adoption of new job placement strategies on the other, which concurrently seek to influence those factors that are detrimental to the occupational outlook of the person with a seizure disorder (notably frequent seizures, psychiatric problems, low educational levels, negative employer attitudes).
(9) The rationale for the inclusion of Mg in cardioplegic solutions therefore lies not in its cardioplegic properties, but in its ability to influence other cellular events such as the loss of Mg and K and perhaps to counter the detrimental effects of ischemia by antagonizing calcium (Ca) overload.
(10) Alternatively, increasing this ratio may permit embryos to reduce the concentration of a substance detrimental to their growth.
(11) Because NMDA receptor antagonists impede certain kinds of learning, and because motor recovery after sensorimotor cortex injury in the rat is dependent on post-lesion experience, we hypothesized that treatment with MK-801 after focal brain injury would be detrimental.
(12) Student participation in school-based suicide prevention programs, however, was associated with a detrimental effect on state teenage suicide rates.
(13) Aggressive or improper toothbrushing techniques may have a detrimental impact on the gingiva.
(14) On this basis we tried to change the milieu on a 26-bed therapeutic community ward which proved to have pseudo-groups and a detrimental ward atmosphere.
(15) In a pediatric critical care environment with skilled ongoing nursing care, the axillary artery can be used as a site for intraarterial monitoring in pediatric patients without a detrimental effect on concurrent or future blood pressure monitoring.
(16) These data suggest that sCR1 inhibits the Arthus reaction by interrupting the activation of the C cascade, hence limiting the detrimental immune complex-induced tissue damage in vivo.
(17) Unreasonable expectations and expansion of the health sector have spawned counterproductive effects which are to some extent detrimental to public health.
(18) Falls among hospitalized patients are common occurrences and can have detrimental effects on patient outcomes.
(19) Nylon drains are available in any operating room, and have no detrimental effects on the grafted skin.
(20) Focal cerebral ischemia initiates multiple detrimental effects in the brain.
Handicap
Definition:
(n.) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like.
(n.) A race, for horses or men, or any contest of agility, strength, or skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.
(n.) An old game at cards.
(v. t.) To encumber with a handicap in any contest; hence, in general, to place at disadvantage; as, the candidate was heavily handicapped.
Example Sentences:
(1) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
(2) In this way they offer the doctor the chance of preventing genetic handicaps that cannot be obtained by natural reproduction, and that therefore should be used.
(3) An age- and education-matched group of women with no family history of FXS was asked to predict the seriousness of problems they might encounter were they to bear a child with a handicapping condition.
(4) However, the provision of dental care showed significant differences, with the handicapped children receiving less restorative treatment.
(5) A questionnaire was presented to 2009 18--19 year old military recruitment candidates which enabled assessment of antipathy towards patients with severe acne vulgaris, the occupational handicap associated with severe acne and subjective inhibitions in acne patients.
(6) Against the current climate of hospital closure programmes and community care, attitudes to caregiving were examined in three groups of carers, namely mothers caring for a mentally handicapped child, mothers caring for a mentally handicapped adult and daughters caring for a parent with dementia.
(7) This BOA technique was used to test the hearing of 82 profoundly involved handicapped children.
(8) The demonstration of these abnormalities may advance the diagnosis of the visual handicap and may facilitate early adjustment of developmental stimulation.
(9) We present implications for the early prediction of handicapping conditions and for further research.
(10) Questionnaires assessing symptoms, disability and handicap, predisposition to anxiety, and current anxiety and depression were completed by 127 people attending neuro-otology clinics with a major complaint of vertigo or dysequilibrium.
(11) The findings are based on interviews from people who define themselves as transport handicapped.
(12) The profile of the respondents revealed that 68% work in general nurse courses, 18% in mental health, 8% in mental handicap and 6% in child care.
(13) An observational study was made of 1-2-year-old children, and of mentally handicapped children functioning at a similar level, to determine the extent to which they involved themselves in play with toys and other objects and the extent to which their day was "empty".
(14) Individually adapted, functional office furniture is not only capable of making physically or sensorily handicapped persons more independent but also enhances their performance.
(15) Development was rapid during the three years following diagnosis, as was shown by the annual number of attacks of acute spinal pain, months of functional handicap and vertebral compression fractures, as well as by changes in size and the two vertebral radiologic indices used.
(16) Patterns previously described for older handicapped children can therefore be recognized as early as the second year of life.
(17) Personal attendants (welfare assistants) could be allocated to each of the more severely handicapped children.
(18) Our ability to design effective countermeasures to orthostatic circulatory intolerance is severely handicapped by our inadequate knowledge of the basic hemodynamic events incident to normal and abnormal orthostatic tolerance.
(19) Although younger, the CF patients tended to be more obstructed in their lungs and more handicapped than the patients suffering from the immotile-cilia syndrome.
(20) The treatment of the handicapped is discussed in the light of the alterations by which they are most commonly afflicted.