(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.
Noneffective
Definition:
(a.) Not effective.
(a.) Not fit or available for duty.
Example Sentences:
(1) This fact, the limited applicability of the information obtained from animal experiments, and the further fact that even test results obtained in human subjects cannot be applied on a world-wide basis, exhort us to take care not to subscribe to an all-too apodictic classification of therapeutic measures into effective and noneffective.
(2) (i) By a step-wise decrease in the dose of virus and restriction of the analyses to the first infectious cycle, a multiplicity of infection was ultimately reached for all "avirulent" populations at which infected cells produced normal yields of infectious viral progeny; i.e., the interferon-inducing components were diluted to noneffective levels.
(3) There is a brief review of the literature, and case examples are given of effective and noneffective consultation.
(4) Two criteria for an interpretation of noneffect are that the relative risk estimate be near unity and that the confidence interval be narrow; lack of statistical significance has no bearing on this issue.
(5) Similarly, in pigeons trained to discriminate imipramine from saline, noneffective doses of CRF shifted the imipramine dose-response curve more than twofold to the left.
(6) In addition to the schizophrenic co-twins, 3 MZ co-twins had a noneffective psychotic disorder, thus supporting the hypothesis that genes are involved in the development of Axis I schizophrenic spectrum disorders.
(7) The purpose of this work was to study the effect of indolylacetic acid (IAA) on the strains of Rhizobium leguminosarum, effective and noneffective with respect to symbiotic nitrogen fixation (L4 and 245a, and 14--73, respectively).
(8) In contrast to ZDV, PMEA was either noneffective in preventing viremia in the offspring or embryotoxic, depending on the dose.
(9) Furthermore, separation of PEC into plastic adherent and nonadherent cells showed the nonadherent (T cell enriched) cells to be noneffective alone.
(10) Effective and noneffective levels of inhalation of 239Pu and 241Am transuranium radionuclides were estimated by changes in heart mass parameters of 143 mongrel dogs.
(11) Of the 23 cases followed by CPA, the chronic efficacy of drugs was excellent for 7 (30%), moderate for 5 (22%), slight for 7 (30%), and noneffective for 4 (18%).
(12) Although it is commonly said that only a small proportion of childhood cancers are caused by environmental exposures, much has been learned about exogenous carcinogens through study of their effects or noneffects in children: 1.
(13) Vaccine preparations with mitomycin C inactivated tumor cells proved to be less (NDV) or noneffective (BCG) compared to those with irradiated tumor cells.
(14) The successful evaluation and treatment of the hypertonic patient depends on a clear understanding of the differences between effective and noneffective solute and the consequences of changes in these solutes for water distribution.
(15) Controls had been provided for to prove the noneffectiveness of the distraction device per se to the joint structures under study.
(16) In contrast, excluding these variables resulted in a 95% probability of failure (noneffective or transiently effective).
(17) The methodology for establishing threshold and noneffective (harmless) levels is also described, along with the prediction of delayed adverse effects.
(18) It was shown that T2-DNA modified I in 0,1 M NaCl completely preserves the native secondary structure, has a low degree modification (1 molecule I per 1000-2000 nucleotide pairs), but is a noneffective template for the RNA-polymerase from E. coli B (20%-40% as compared with unmodified T2-DNA).
(19) It was concluded that a single noneffective dose of a vasodilator administered together with an ACE inhibitor in normotensives can lower blood pressure and increase arterial compliance and plasma active renin.
(20) Effects of CRF were significantly enhanced when given in combination with imipramine with low noneffective imipramine doses potentiating the rate-reducing effects of CRF.