(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.
Incompetent
Definition:
(a.) Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit.
(a.) Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence.
(a.) Not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power; not permissible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some women have clinically obvious cervical incompetence and may benefit from a cerclage operation, but criteria for early diagnosis are not universally agreed upon.
(2) First, the decrement in the maximal heart rate response to exercise (known as "chronotropic incompetence") found in the sedentary MI rat was completely reversed by endurance training.
(3) All but one patient had clinical evidence of pulmonary incompetence.
(4) Mutant polypeptides have been characterized that are competent and incompetent for association with GRP78-BiP.
(5) The possibility of being liable if an incompetent student becomes registered and causes harm is also discussed.
(6) A differentiation incompetent QM cell derivative was also isolated (QM5DI).
(7) Secondary valvular incompetence occurs from deep venous obstruction or increased venous distensibility (usually secondary to circulating estrogens).
(8) Valvular incompetence developed in 13 patients during the study period.
(9) This implies that degradation of sIgM does not result from the incompetence of 38C cells to polymerize.
(10) (vii) Two deletions within the EBNA-2 gene which rendered EBV transformation incompetent did not transactivate LMP1, whereas a transformation-competent EBNA-2 deletion mutant did transactivate LMP1.
(11) In a randomized placebo controlled parallel double blind study on 40 patients suffering from venous edema in chronic deep vein incompetence, the edema-reducing effect of horse chestnut seed extract vs. placebo, being the main test variable, was demonstrated by hydroplethysmography to be statistically significant.
(12) The etiology of acute severe mitral incompetence resulting from rupture of the chordae is presented and is illustrated by four case reports.
(13) Without the addition of the sRNA, the 7-8-8.5-10 particles were incompetent while the 7-8-8.5-10-RNA particles were competent in DNA packaging.
(14) It is the bonus culture – not high pay, recklessness or incompetence – that has polluted banking's public image.
(15) They shun cost-benefit analysis but soak up aid money, saying Haiti's state is incompetent and corrupt.
(16) Incidence of isolated mitral incompetence and combined heart injuries, valve damage mechanics, and frequent causes of blunt chest trauma are discussed.
(17) Among the special cases considered are: the competent adult patient who refuses treatment on religious or privacy grounds; the incompetent patient whose own wishes were never expressed, but whose family refuses treatment; the incompetent patient who expressed the wish not to be treated before becoming incompetent; and parents who refuse treatment on behalf of their child.
(18) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(19) The device was implanted around 11 completely incompetent and seven partially incompetent valves in 18 veins of 11 sheep.
(20) It is clear that they are either incompetent or corrupt, and I don’t believe that they are incompetent.