What's the difference between disable and invalid?
Disable
Definition:
(a.) Lacking ability; unable.
(v. t.) To render unable or incapable; to destroy the force, vigor, or power of action of; to deprive of competent physical or intellectual power; to incapacitate; to disqualify; to make incompetent or unfit for service; to impair.
(v. t.) To deprive of legal right or qualification; to render legally incapable.
(v. t.) To deprive of that which gives value or estimation; to declare lacking in competency; to disparage; to undervalue.
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."
Invalid
Definition:
(a.) Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak.
(a.) Having no force, effect, or efficacy; void; null; as, an invalid contract or agreement.
(a.) A person who is weak and infirm; one who is disabled for active service; especially, one in chronic ill health.
(n.) Not well; feeble; infirm; sickly; as, he had an invalid daughter.
(v. t.) To make or render invalid or infirm.
(v. t.) To classify or enroll as an invalid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Especially in the old patients (over 70 years) the incisional hernias represents an invalidating pathology whose treatment, for the high incidence of associated diseases of respiratory and cardiocirculatory apparatus in the aged, offers difficulties connected both to surgical methods and to the perioperative evaluation and preparation of patients.
(2) Thus neither the presence of changes in RS-T segment or T wave nor the absence of QRS changes are mandatory for the diagnosis of SEMI; this invalidates the common assumption that the diagnosis is not justified unless these conditions are met.
(3) It was found that good results had 53.2% of the patients, 12.8% of the patients had limited working capacity, 4.6% of the patients became invalids.
(4) Awareness of problems that may arise in the physician-patient relationship may prevent such outcomes as suicide, anxiety, hypochondriasis, invalidism and psychotic symptoms.
(5) It imposes a standard of logical reductionism and methodological purity that not only violates the nature of psychoanalytic knowledge, but imposes an invalid standard of verification and scientific confirmation.
(6) In this event it may be possible to prevent invalidating effects on fertility and chronic pelvic pain.
(7) Lutzomyia may be defined geographically, but the use of geographical distribution in taxonomy leads to circular biogeographical arguments, and is invalid.
(8) 36% of the group had abstained from further drug taking, 27% were taking them periodically, 32% had to be treated again and 5% had deteriorated (trend towards invalidism).
(9) Jim Devine, Labour MP for Livingston, was reportedly under investigation for invoices he submitted for electrical work worth more than £2,000 from a company with an allegedly fake address and an invalid VAT number.
(10) Sources of invalidity may relate to subject factors or to circumstances under which data are collected.
(11) The postulated interference of therapeutic levels of alpha-methyldopa on the phosphotungstate uric acid method was invalid.
(12) These recent findings invalidate our previous conclusion that isozyme 3a is not induced by ethanol treatment of rabbits.
(13) Respecting the frequency of invalidity this cancer pretends the second place among these diseases.
(14) Any criminal cases which rested on acquisition of data through the directive could also be called into question, because the court decided that "the declaration of invalidity takes effect from the date on which the directive entered into force" – that is, 2006.
(15) It is emphasized that various effects of anaesthetics unrelated to their anaesthetic properties may obscure or even invalidate results obtained with drugs acting on the peripheral sympathetic nervous system.
(16) In clinical trials, information and consent problems usually relate to the possibility that information given the participant will invalidate the findings.
(17) But the appeals court decided that while the warrants were defective in some respects it was not enough to declare them invalid.
(18) She emphasizes the mortality life expectancy at birth, abortion rate, work incapacity on account of illness and injury, morbidity from diabetes and tuberculosis, the trend of newly detected malignant tumours and causes of invalidity.
(19) Trainmen and railroad clerks were used as reference cohorts.The engineers had relatively high invalidity and mortality rates in comparison to the reference groups, especially with respect to cardiovascular diseases and malignant tumors.
(20) Results were invalidated if calculations were based on initial slope of the wash-out curves.Topical application of beta-methasone valerate in a reduction in cutaneous blood flow as measured by the intracutaneous technique with curve resolution, whereas no effect could be demonstrated when calculations were based on the initial slopes of the curves.