What's the difference between impairment and vitiation?

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.

Vitiation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of vitiating, or the state of being vitiated; depravation; corruption; invalidation; as, the vitiation of the blood; the vitiation of a contract.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These conclusions vitiate previous explanations for gal3 associated long-term adaptation and noninducible phenotypes.
  • (2) Thus it is concluded that any solution or drug which needs to be injected should ideally be used at 37 degrees C, as temperature lower or higher than that may vitiate the results.
  • (3) Their review is marred by numerous errors which vitiate the potency estimates.
  • (4) Antibiotic therapy prior to hospitalization did not vitiate the validity of the test.
  • (5) The following is concluded: (1) diagnosis of folate and B12 deficiency based on SF, RCF and serum B12 is vitiated in HBT and needs a therapeutic trial; (2) iron overload of a magnitude indicated by TS greater than 50% can aggravate anemia in HBT.
  • (6) The technique is simple but the results may be vitiated by the minutae of preservation, of taking or of staining the cells which are described.
  • (7) Some of the previous results (Ascenzi et al., 1985) indicating a high hemoglobin titer were +vitiated because of an unexpected cross-reactivity of bone extracts with the hemoglobin-unreactive fraction of the antiserum.
  • (8) The authors have classified the various fractures of the pelvis in children by analysing the elements of functional prognosis of these lesions based on the types of fractures and on the particular factors of vitiation reported in the literature, consisting of series which are too short to be truly demonstrative.
  • (9) While the physiological role of these proteins remains to be determined, their presence in gonadal extracts or fluids vitiates assessment of FSH within the gonad by RIA using antiserum against hFSH.
  • (10) It was also found that the protective effect is vitiated by the concurrent administration of paraaminobenzoic acid.These studies indicate a need for further assessment of the antimalarial value of sulfones and sulfonamides, both alone and in combination with other drugs, for prevention and cure.
  • (11) In particular, the extent to which the generality of the model is vitiated by its ignoring the effect of mineralisation on strength was tested.
  • (12) These conclusions are not vitiated by differences in the number of nuclei within capillaries or in satellite cells, by differences in nuclear length or by variation in the degree to which fibres are contracted.
  • (13) Infection or ileal conduit urine vitiate the result as they produce high CEA levels in the urine in the absence of any neoplastic disease.
  • (14) It is argued that despite continued methodological improvements, subjects in the conditions of greater complexity may have found it sufficient to rotate only partial images, thereby vitiating the prediction.
  • (15) The failed bid by prime minister Antonis Samaras to throw off the yoke of international supervision by prematurely exiting the bailout programme has also vitiated his fragile government’s appeal.
  • (16) An investigation of the risky shift phenomenon revealed that an understanding of probability did not vitiate the shift toward greater risk.
  • (17) The several factors which do not depend directly on the orifice area or on the forward stroke volume vitiate the sole use of the orifice formula in the analysis of the dynamics of aortic stenosis.
  • (18) Mutations not detectable by analysis with the method of Southern with pDP1007, may occur in the testicular determinant factor gene vitiating testicular development.
  • (19) It is believed that a.m. are an important drawback contributing to vitiate any formula on the amount of muscle surgery to be performed in patients having no possibilities of restoring normal binocular vision.
  • (20) The stimulatory effect was vitiated by cycloheximide indicating the involvement of intermediate genes in the PLP gene activation.