What's the difference between impotent and impotently?

Impotent


Definition:

  • (a.) Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble; infirm.
  • (a.) Wanting the power of self-restraint; incontrolled; ungovernable; violent.
  • (a.) Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren.
  • (n.) One who is imoitent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sexual impotence, the most important lasting complication of total prostatectomy, is present in 23-47% of patients after radiotherapy.
  • (2) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
  • (3) Further vegetative signs are impotence and a loss of thermoregulatoric sweat.
  • (4) The irony of this type of self-manipulation is that ultimately the child, or adult, finds himself again burdened by impotence, though it is the impotence of guilt rather than that of shame.
  • (5) Psychiatry is criticized for imprecise diagnosis, conceptual vagaries, jargon, therapeutic impotence and class bias.
  • (6) Adverse effects are mostly those related to hormone withdrawal, namely, impotence, infertility, and lassitude.
  • (7) Concurrent sphincteric incontinence and organic impotence are not uncommon; they can be caused by many congenital and acquired conditions.
  • (8) Decreased libido and impotence were more common in patients given primidone.
  • (9) The cases with 'Dhat' syndrome or with impotence scored maximally on neuroticism and depression scales.
  • (10) The results demonstrated a good ability of the KCII to accurately identify impotent patients (on the basis of history) who would have positive or negative signs of hormonal factor or neurological factor confirmed by laboratory results or physical examination.
  • (11) The widely used mineralocorticoid antagonist spironolactone has antiandrogenic activity that may contribute to its side effects of decreased libido, impotence and gynecomastia.
  • (12) Among 1,236 consecutive impotent patients investigated at our center 5.3% had serum levels of prolactin greater than normal.
  • (13) Hyperprolactinemia is a recognized cause of impotence.
  • (14) There is a perfectly illogical explanation for it; polio drops are meant to make us impotent and these programmes are run by the same people who managed to locate Osama bin Laden by running another scam vaccination campaign.
  • (15) Preoperative evaluation of causes of impotence is particularly important.
  • (16) This 41-year-old man became impotent and developed decreased pain sensation in his hands, and then sensory loss and muscle wasting in his lower legs, and cardiomyopathy appeared.
  • (17) Oral prostaglandin E1 was suggested as an additional or alternative therapy in the management of psychogenic impotence.
  • (18) Of interest to the developing area of diurnal penile tumescence for the etiological diagnosis of impotence was the observation that a significant percentage (37 per cent) of normal subjects were unable to achieve a full erection during visual sexual stimulation under laboratory conditions.
  • (19) Atherosclerotic vascular changes play an important predisposing role in the development of impotence.
  • (20) However, most of the patients had been impotent for several years and their successful adaptation may have limited the success of psychotherapy.

Impotently


Definition:

  • (adv.) In an impotent manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sexual impotence, the most important lasting complication of total prostatectomy, is present in 23-47% of patients after radiotherapy.
  • (2) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
  • (3) Further vegetative signs are impotence and a loss of thermoregulatoric sweat.
  • (4) The irony of this type of self-manipulation is that ultimately the child, or adult, finds himself again burdened by impotence, though it is the impotence of guilt rather than that of shame.
  • (5) Psychiatry is criticized for imprecise diagnosis, conceptual vagaries, jargon, therapeutic impotence and class bias.
  • (6) Adverse effects are mostly those related to hormone withdrawal, namely, impotence, infertility, and lassitude.
  • (7) Concurrent sphincteric incontinence and organic impotence are not uncommon; they can be caused by many congenital and acquired conditions.
  • (8) Decreased libido and impotence were more common in patients given primidone.
  • (9) The cases with 'Dhat' syndrome or with impotence scored maximally on neuroticism and depression scales.
  • (10) The results demonstrated a good ability of the KCII to accurately identify impotent patients (on the basis of history) who would have positive or negative signs of hormonal factor or neurological factor confirmed by laboratory results or physical examination.
  • (11) The widely used mineralocorticoid antagonist spironolactone has antiandrogenic activity that may contribute to its side effects of decreased libido, impotence and gynecomastia.
  • (12) Among 1,236 consecutive impotent patients investigated at our center 5.3% had serum levels of prolactin greater than normal.
  • (13) Hyperprolactinemia is a recognized cause of impotence.
  • (14) There is a perfectly illogical explanation for it; polio drops are meant to make us impotent and these programmes are run by the same people who managed to locate Osama bin Laden by running another scam vaccination campaign.
  • (15) Preoperative evaluation of causes of impotence is particularly important.
  • (16) This 41-year-old man became impotent and developed decreased pain sensation in his hands, and then sensory loss and muscle wasting in his lower legs, and cardiomyopathy appeared.
  • (17) Oral prostaglandin E1 was suggested as an additional or alternative therapy in the management of psychogenic impotence.
  • (18) Of interest to the developing area of diurnal penile tumescence for the etiological diagnosis of impotence was the observation that a significant percentage (37 per cent) of normal subjects were unable to achieve a full erection during visual sexual stimulation under laboratory conditions.
  • (19) Atherosclerotic vascular changes play an important predisposing role in the development of impotence.
  • (20) However, most of the patients had been impotent for several years and their successful adaptation may have limited the success of psychotherapy.

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