(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."
Sidewinder
Definition:
(n.) See Horned rattler, under Horned.
(n.) A heavy swinging blow from the side, which disables an adversary.
Example Sentences:
(1) After analysis of the catheter maneuvers inherent to the special shape of the type of catheter used (Sidewinder, Cordis Corporation), it is concluded that this complication resulted from incorrect catheter manipulation and an incorrect choice of the dimensions of the preshaped part of the catheter in relation to the diameter of the aortic arch.
(2) Synchronized electromyography and cinematography were used to determine the muscle activity of colubroid snakes during sidewinding and concertina locomotion.
(3) A hairpin bend between the strictured ureter and the ileal conduit was easily negotiated by reforming a Sidewinder loop within the contralateral ureter and withdrawing it until the tip entered the conduit.
(4) The Simmons sidewinder catheter is frequently used, but reforming its unique curve may be a problem.
(5) The characteristics of the "sidewinder-technique" are emphasized.
(6) Reforming an open loop in the ascending aorta is the first step in performing selective catheterization of the aortic arch branches, using a sidewinder catheter.
(7) Sidewinding locomotion of Nerodia fasciata and Crotalus cerastes was the result of continuous posterior propagation of contractile blocks consisting of several adjacent muscle segments.
(8) Use of a special guide wire contributed to the successful performance of safe femorocerebral angiography with the Simmons sidewinder catheter in the 47 of 48 elderly patients in whom it was performed.
(9) At 7.24am, one of them opened fire with an air-to-air missile, believed to be a US-made Aim-9 sidewinder .
(10) A Simmons (sidewinder) catheter is maneuvered into the ascending aorta and is rotated as to assume its performed shape.
(11) Best known for the big melodies of Everybody Hurts, The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight and Man on the Moon, a murkier, older REM mood prevails on Automatic for the People – try the arresting Try Not to Breathe, about an old man grappling with death, a cousin to Green's similarly affecting You Are the Everything, or the woozy New Orleans Instrumental No 1.
(12) Reformation of the curve of the Simmons sidewinder catheter may be difficult in some patients, and the originally described technique using the left subclavian artery may be unsuccessful.
(13) Through using the sidewinder catheter system for visceral angiography in over 200 patients we have improved our success rate.
(14) A three-dimensional left coronary bypass graft catheter with a sidewinder configuration is described.
(15) During sidewinding, the activity of the M. longissimus dorsi and M. iliocostalis was primarily unilateral, beginning when a body region was convex and ending when it was maximally concave on the side of the active muscle.