(n.) The quality or state of being unable; lack of ability; want of sufficient power, strength, resources, or capacity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(2) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
(3) Major limitations of the conventional sperm penetration assay are the inability to assess several aspects of sperm function (zona binding and penetration) and the absence of human ovulatory products known to influence fertilization.
(4) While cells that were treated with antibody were unable to aggregate because of the inability to destroy cAMP, they aggregated normally when washed free of antibody.
(5) Cessation of coital activity was associated with specified types of stress between 65 and 70 years of age in the subgroup of men who had stopped due to inability; six out of eight reported stress against five out of 20 in the C group, P less than 0.05.
(6) The patient was referred to the podiatry department because of continued discomfort and the inability to run.
(7) Localization of the receptor binding domain within the C-terminal region of PA was suggested by the inability of the monoclonal antibodies 3B6 and 14B7 to recognize the recombinant proteins expressed by C-terminal deletions of the pag gene.
(8) The most frequent presentation is the inability to retain the external prosthesis.
(9) Fibroblastic cells were characterized by their spindle shape, content of a mucopolysaccharide, their relative inability to synthesize infectious influenza virus, and production of a cell-associated noninfectious hemagglutinin.
(10) The determination of circulating biologically active PTH in the rat has been difficult due at least in part to the inability to develop an antibody suitable for RIA of rat PTH.
(11) We now provide evidence strongly suggesting that the primary defect in Lec8 and Clone 13 cells is their inability to translocate UDP-galactose into the lumen of the Golgi apparatus.
(12) A major limitation of 3-D CT is its inability to reconstruct the pathology of soft tissues with the same fidelity afforded bony structures.
(13) The researchers suggested that the inability to establish relationships may be due to a function of methods, sample size, or a reflection of a different population.
(14) First, chains are constrained by their inability to penetrate the boundary.
(15) The sequence of the murine protein differs from that of the human protein in 10% of residues, and it may be presumed that some of these differences are responsible for the inability of gibbon ape leukemia virus to infect mouse fibroblasts.
(16) Thus, children's early difficulty in reading may be one sign of a general inability to selectively attend to the parts of any perceptual wholes.
(17) As there is evidence for the relative inability of infants to synthesize taurine, this nitrogen compound has to be wholly supplied by the mother during pregnancy and by diet after birth, particularly for the prematures who have to constitute appreciable reserves in their tissues.
(18) The inability of these young smokers to enhance their mucus clearance by cough suggests a change in the mucociliary apparatus from normal.
(19) An additional 17 patients considered highly in need of treatment met criteria for commitment based on inability to care for self, but most were hospitalized voluntarily.
(20) Phosphoglyceride and triacylglycerol biosynthesis in glycerol kinase deficiency fibroblasts is not diminished by the inability to use glycerol as a precursor of glycerol 3-phosphate.
Maladjustment
Definition:
(n.) A bad adjustment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present study investigated the effects of family economic stress on parental support and adolescent maladjustment in 622 9th through 12th graders in a Midwestern farm community.
(2) In patients with a high starting baseline pressure of previous maladjustable glaucoma it was necessary to start combined treatment.
(3) In spite of these differences, standard scores from the personality measures suggested that dysmenorrhea sufferers were not maladjusted.
(4) As a first step in clarifying this relationship, this paper proposes a method for analyzing the interaction of cultural change and psychosocial maladjustment.
(5) Finally, a study with 77 psychiatric patients shows that self-oriented, other-oriented, and socially prescribed perfectionism relate differentially to indices of personality disorders and other psychological maladjustment.
(6) There has been controversy concerning the type and amount of psychosocial maladjustment among the siblings of children with chronic physical health problems and disabilities.
(7) Parental overprotection has often been clinically associated with the psychological maladjustment of children with a chronic disease.
(8) The test instruments included the Purpose in Life Test (PIL), a Sex Drive and Interest Scale, and a Sexual Frustration and Maladjustment Scale.
(9) Thirty of these refugees showed symptoms of chronic maladjustment, and 13 showed another DSM-III axis I disorder; two manifested a paranoid psychosis, and six had a major depression.
(10) A correlational analysis of the 7-factor components of the NPI (Authority, Exhibitionism, Superiority, Vanity, Exploitativeness, Entitlement, and Self-Sufficiency) and the MMPI validity, clinical, commonly scored, and content scales suggests that the seven NPI components reflect different levels of psychological maladjustment.
(11) A negative social situation in the home environment was most common for maladjusted patients.
(12) During clinicalontgenetic analysis concerning particular studied cases, 3 models of nonfunctional adaptation were distinguished: maladjustment of aggressive type prevailing among the children with permanent physical handicap coming of families characteristic for socially nonaccepted standard of behaviour; maladjustment of neurotic type prevailing among the children coming of compliant families whose adult members manifest neurotic vegetative reactions in difficult situations.
(13) There was a high incidence of personality maladjustment as indicated by both the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality inventory and individual psychiatric evaluation.
(14) The investigation of the state of health, of the psychophysiological reactivity, as well as of the adaptation and fatigue symptomatology has detected maladjustment and fatigue phenomena, with impairments of the psychosomatic balance, more marked in monotasterers.
(15) Multivariate analyses of variance indicated that, overall, maladjusted subjects displayed less assertiveness and more verbal and nonverbal aggressive responses to the actual provocations.
(16) This article describes the development and implementation of a rural consortium of school-based programs for early detection and prevention of maladjustment.
(17) There are indications that genetic and handicapping disorders, and psychosocial maladjustment will receive more attention in the future.
(18) At follow-up 2 years later the distribution of the patients as regards useful work, social support, social contacts and social adjustment has significantly changed with more patients now with less useful work and social support, fewer social contacts and increased social maladjustment.
(19) Research on the link between marital conflict and child maladjustment therefore is critically evaluated, and a framework is presented that organizes existing studies and suggests directions for future research on processes that may account for the association.
(20) into 5 subcategories; core, drop-out, transient reaction, special job maladjustment and other.