(n.) State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.
(n.) Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.
Example Sentences:
(1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(2) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
(3) Disabled men also were more depressed and anxious and had lower ego strength and higher hypochondriasis scores on the MMPI, but were no different in type A behavior.
(4) This paper provides a description of the cerebellar-vestibular-determined (CV) neurological and electronystagmographic (ENG) parameters characterizing 4,000 patients with learning disabilities.
(5) Learning disabled children made more errors at all ages than normal children.
(6) The heretofore "permanently and totally disabled versus able-bodied" principle in welfare reforms is being abbandoned.
(7) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
(8) This empirical fact has in recent years been increasingly dealt with in pertinent German-language literature, the discussion clearly emphasizing the demand that programmes aimed at the vocational qualification of unemployed disabled persons be provided, along with accompanying measures.
(9) The Disability Division of ActionAid-India supports 38 non-governmental organisations involved in disability programmes in India.
(10) Harvey Whiteford, Kratzmann professor of psychiatry and population health at the University of Queensland, Australia, said depression was very common and was the second leading cause of health-related disability.
(11) Of these, 12 had radiation-induced neurologic complications which, in 5 instances, consisted of persisting, wholly or partially disabling paresis in the lower limbs.
(12) The sports preparticipation examination can be worthwhile if the musculoskeletal system is examined carefully, with particular regard for the residual disabilities from previous injuries; this can be accomplished in a two-minute orthopedic examination done in addition to the usual physical examination.
(13) This study was designed to ascertain the frequency of these problems in our RS patients, whether they were related to other clinical features of RS and what was the extent of the resulting disability.
(14) For services to People with Disabilities and their Families.
(15) This is the first study to document systematically and prospectively the marked restriction of normal activity in affected individuals and the long duration of the disability.
(16) In the present study, 24 patients, matched for age, sex, duration of disease, and disability, had serial gadolinium diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid-enhanced MRI over a 6-month period.
(17) The ophthalmologist must explain to the child and the parents that dyslexia usually has no ophthalmological or visual cause but is a disability with a neurobiological background, still unknown, in which the only efficient treatment is within the area of pedagogy.
(18) There was inadequate evidence to indicate that the higher risk of neuropsychiatric disability for painters might have been due to their occupational exposure to organic solvents.
(19) The gluten-free diet failed to improve the neurologic disability except in 1 patient.
(20) However, the majority of people will continue to have face-to-face assessments under the new benefit this government introduced, unlike the old system of disability living allowance where only around 6% were seen."
Rheumatism
Definition:
(n.) A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart.
Example Sentences:
(1) 278 children with bronchial asthma were medically, socially and psychologically compared to 27 rheumatic and 19 diabetic children.
(2) Although the incidence of acute rheumatic fever has declined in the last decades, a few outbreaks have recently been reported.
(3) No cases of rheumatic fever and no acute nephritis appeared in spite of the vigorous immune response to both cellular and extracellular antigens of group A streptococci documented in 50% to 80% of patients, suggesting that strain variation may be a feature of rheumatogenicity as well as nephritogenicity of group A streptococcal pharyngitis.
(4) A case of post streptococcal acute glomerulonephritis co-existing with acute rheumatic fever is reported.
(5) Capillary neogenesis, probably in reaction to subclinical cutaneous vascularity, was detected in 59% of cases (86% of subjects presenting extra-articular rheumatism).
(6) In 53 patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis we performed echocardiographic study in order to define anatomic and functional alterations.
(7) Seventeen patients were diagnosed as having primary rheumatic carditis, 9 presented with tonsillogenic rheumatic carditis, and 16 had viral rheumatic carditis.
(8) However, antibodies to native DNA and to nuclear ribonucleoprotein were found in a variety of systemic rheumatic diseases.
(9) The Council on Rehabilitative Rheumatology of the American Rheumatism Association, through the Education Subcommittee, surveyed directors of 69 approved rehabilitation medicine residency training programs to assess the nature of training in rehabilitative-rheumatology and whether the directors believed this training to be adequate.
(10) Arthrography before isotope synoviorthesis of the fingers and wrists was carried out in 185 patients suffering from inflammatory rheumatic conditions.
(11) This study has identified a new marker, antibodies against a nuclear RNP protein of 56 KD for detecting muscle involvement among the autoimmune rheumatic diseases.
(12) Mitral valve leaflets were smooth and white in a patients without mitral valvular disease, while the leaflets were yellow, thick and irregular, and blood regurgitation from the left ventricle into the left atrium could be observed in two patients with rheumatic MSR.
(13) Immunological functions were investigated in 10 children with acute rheumatic fever and 11 children with acute nephritis to try and elucidate the cause of heart damage in acute rheumatic fever.
(14) In patients suffering of latent rheumatism with a subminimal activity, no increased number of circulating eosinophils is observed.
(15) 107 Consecutive patients with rheumatic valvular heart disease (41 males, 66 females, average age 24.2 years) being followed at an Ethiopian cardiology referral clinic were examined and questioned about their experience of hemoptysis.
(16) In summary, our findings support the view that implication of CD8(+)-T-cell activation is different in the pathogenesis of each rheumatic disease.
(17) The weakening of rosette-forming function of lymphocytes, a decrease in a mitogenic response to PHA, dysimmunoglobulinemia, imbalance in antibody production, particularly hyperproduction of cardial antibodies in rheumatic fever were observed as was marked delayed-type hypersensitivity to tissue antigens, more frequently to purified cardial antigens--to myocardial cell membranes and myosin.
(18) In conclusion, rheumatic disease is still a frequent cause for surgical replacement of the aortic valve.
(19) The authors present four cases of rheumatic heart disease with severe dilatation of the left atrium which reached the right profile in the radiologic study.
(20) The accent in rheumatism orthopedics should gradually shift toward early preventive operation.