What's the difference between impairment and impediment?

Impairment


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being impaired; injury.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
  • (2) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
  • (3) The CHI patients were impaired overall on the FTE but not the CTE.
  • (4) 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'.
  • (5) Changes in renal renin levels after the administration of glycerol were not significant, although lower renal renin values were consistently found in rabbits with more severe impairment of renal function.
  • (6) These findings suggest that aerosolization of ATP into the cystic fibrosis-affected bronchial tree might be hazardous in terms of enhancement of parenchymal damage, which would result from neutrophil elastase release, and in terms of impaired respiratory lung function.
  • (7) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
  • (8) No biologic investigation of the hemostatic impairment could be performed under the emergency conditions of this field study.
  • (9) Two hours after the administration, the combinations of ethanol plus diazepam and ethanol plus meclophenoxate impaired significantly the number of necessary repetitions.
  • (10) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
  • (11) The Test of Motor Impairment (TOMI) was used to select 12 children with a Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and 12 age-matched controls.
  • (12) Patients with MID, but not those with DAT, exhibited correlations between enlargement of the third and lateral ventricles and severity of cognitive impairment.
  • (13) ACTH 4-10 appeared to slightly impair selective attention as indicated by AEP responses.
  • (14) After large bowel removal, there was impaired glucose tolerance and attenuated plasma insulin secretion.
  • (15) Only the aged treatment group demonstrated significantly impaired performance.
  • (16) Case 3 was that of a 70-year-old female with left impaired vision and frontal headache.
  • (17) This review focused on the methods used to identify language impairment in specifically language-impaired subjects participating in 72 research studies that were described in four journals from 1983 to 1988.
  • (18) Our results clearly indicate impaired carbohydrate metabolism in potassium-depleted rats.
  • (19) One subject had developed renal failure, while the other two continued to function at a high level with no evidence of cognitive decline or psychiatric or neurologic impairment.
  • (20) The subscales Depression, Inactivity and Physical Impairment could not be identified as a factor.

Impediment


Definition:

  • (n.) That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.
  • (v. t.) To impede.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Impediments to the necessary growth of this subspecialty for the needs of clinical practice and research are outlined and criteria for certification are reviewed.
  • (2) An understanding of the possible psychologic impediments to weight loss can promote improved therapeutic intervention for the obese patient.
  • (3) The results suggest that chronic sunlight exposure may be associated with an impediment to normal maturation of human dermal collagen resulting in tenuous amount of HHL.
  • (4) In order to achieve palatal closure with the least possible impediment to maxillary growth, the two-stage repair seems to be the best procedure in our hands.
  • (5) Causes of these impediments to maintaining nutritional status are discussed, and suggestions to overcome them are given.
  • (6) The data are consistent with the hypothesis that there is a sequential increasing impediment of the programmed cascade for downstream heavy chain constant region gene rearrangements.
  • (7) Lack of reproducibility is a severe impediment of both current conventional and kinetic methods in the prognosis of gliomas.
  • (8) These organizations can greatly reduce the logistic impediments to evaluating EMS care and initiating improvements.
  • (9) Changes in the evaluation protocol could preclude existing impediments to provision of information and patient autonomy; however, certain intrapsychic issues must be recognized as ongoing clinical realities to be addressed as the doctrine of informed consent continues to evolve.
  • (10) This survey shows that the use of nondiagnostic mammography is still less than optimal, and identifies impediments to screening that need to be addressed in cancer control planning efforts.
  • (11) The most frequently listed impediments included patients' advanced age or fragility, inadequate health insurance, and excess travel distance.
  • (12) Major issues identified include operational specificity, mislabelling of procedures, relative contributions of components in multi-faceted treatment packages, and impediments to systematic replication.
  • (13) The clinics of a single university hospital center were observed to determine a practical rationale for and impediments to implementing a medical care evaluation program.
  • (14) Accurate assessment and effective response is rendered difficult due to underrepresentation or denial by the patient and countertransference impediments to recognition and limit setting by the therapist.
  • (15) One impediment to such a study is the absence of any identified gene whose transcription is directly dependent on the receptor-hormone complex.
  • (16) But, according to Ruddick, the state council is a “gerrymander”, with factional leaders creating new “on-paper” branches that meet at most once a year in order to elect a delegate to state council and keep hold of “the numbers” – presenting Liberal reformers with exactly the same structural impediment to change as is faced by Labor.
  • (17) Conroy said the Minchin protocol was “merely an administrative policy adopted by the Department of Finance” which was “no impediment to a police investigation into Ms Bishop’s conduct”.
  • (18) A significant impediment in determining the relative contribution of whole blood viscosity to the pathogenesis of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease has been the lack of an uncomplicated method to measure whole blood viscosity.
  • (19) However, the lack of data on the forms of chromium-absorption from foods by the gastro-intestinal tract, and our concomitant inability to obtain an accurate assessment of the daily mobile pool of metabolically active chromium in the human body continues to be an impediment in assessing the overall impact of chromium nutrition.
  • (20) The results of this study indicated that the use of a nonresorbable hydroxylapatite for grafting resulted in impediment of tooth eruption and distortion of crown development.