What's the difference between incapacitation and incapacity?

Incapacitation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The CCK 8-induced analgesia or hyperalgesia was not seen in the tail flick test and was not associated with motor incapacitation or any other noticeable side effects.
  • (2) Although most of the cognitive symptoms were mild to moderate in severity, they were incapacitating to these individuals in their usual work.
  • (3) Recent progress in producing pharmacologic defenses suggests that humans can be largely protected from the lethal and prolonged incapacitating effects of these compounds on a chemical battlefield.
  • (4) At the time of the operation all patients were socially incapacitated by their epilepsy; this was most pronounced in males, of whom 30 per cent were institutionalized and 32 per cent were receiving disablement pension; at follow-up the figures were 6 per cent and 52 per cent, respectively.
  • (5) He believed that, even if Monis was paralysed, the explosive may have been connected to a “dead man’s switch” which would automatically detonate the bomb if the operator becomes incapacitated.
  • (6) It is characterized by remissions and is usually not incapacitating.
  • (7) Police officers in the US are trained to shoot to kill, not incapacitate.
  • (8) The number of patients disabled and their degree of disability seems to justifiy surgical treatment in patients with frequent and incapacitating attacks of vertigo.
  • (9) This suggests that such a pretreatment combination may prove very efficacious against soman-induced lethality and incapacitation in higher species.
  • (10) Associated with colonization were bladder incontinence, deteriorating or terminal clinical status, inability to walk or perform activities of daily living and incapacitation due to neoplastic, respiratory and cardiac disease (P less than 0.05).
  • (11) The relative lack of incapacitating side-effects of phenothiazines should provide an attractive change for the clinical oncologist.
  • (12) Barnes said Monis knew what he was doing and was not incapacitated by a psychiatric condition.
  • (13) The patient (Joyce) was a young mother whose very severe eczema and asthma were accompanied by an incapacitating depression.
  • (14) The authors stress the frequent bilateralisation of the disease and the need to reserve vestibular neurectomy for cases of longstanding incapacitating vertigo, resistant to all other treatment, as well as the value of surgery on the endolymphatic surgery provided that the criteria of indication are complied with.
  • (15) Two Chinese populations over age 15 were surveyed as to the point prevalence of "incapacitating" headaches in an urban population of 1,525 persons and a rural one of 1,203.
  • (16) Intracerebroventricular injection of the moderate dose reliably reduced frequency of pinning while the higher dose was severely incapacitating and the low dose was without effect.
  • (17) Their refusal to condemn him reinforces myths and misinformation about rape – they don't seem to understand that the law is very clear that if someone is too drunk or otherwise incapacitated to consent, it is rape."
  • (18) Transfection of protoplasts with low (2 micrograms) amounts of delta 5'RNA-2, together with transcripts of wild-type RNA-1 and -3, not only incapacitated the replication of RNA-2 but also significantly interfered in trans with the synthesis and accumulation of the other viral RNAs.
  • (19) But at this moment of the final parting, my heart is heavy with sorrow and grief.” On death: “There is an end to everything and I want mine to come as quickly and painlessly as possible, not with me incapacitated, half in coma in bed and with a tube going into my nostrils and down to my stomach.” “Even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me to the grave and I feel that something is going wrong, I will get up.
  • (20) Sudden cardiac incapacitation occurring during critically stressful circumstances in men engaged in a variety of occupations may compromise public safety.

Incapacity


Definition:

  • (n.) Want of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power; inability.
  • (n.) Want of legal ability or competency to do, give, transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the inacapacity of minors to make binding contracts, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The level of stability of the ratio (alpha coefficient) of maximal ventilation (MBC) over maximal expiratory volume per second (FEV1) was continued statistically for its practical value in estimating the respiratory functional incapacity.
  • (2) job losses In areas where the local economy was strong, there were much lower incapacity claimant rates.
  • (3) They used graphic illustrations of time series with a regression line which indicates a rising or declining trend of work incapacity.
  • (4) By means of the inquiry method, informations were obtained regarding the appraisement of temporary working incapacity, performed by 76 doctors, of whom 45 general practitioners and 31 factory doctors.
  • (5) The progressive effect of Alzheimer's disease was followed in a 58 year old woman over three and a half years from the development of the earliest symptoms to complete mental incapacity.
  • (6) The role of stimulated T cells in the induction of B mitoses was shown by (a) the incapacity of T-depleted spleen cells to be stimulated by PHA or in primary or secondary MLC, and (b) the restoration of the mitotic response of B cells to PHA by adding to the T cell-depleted culture either a very small number of T cell (identified by their different karyotype: "in vitro chimeras") or the cell-free supernatant of a 24 hr MLC.
  • (7) The hypothesis tested was that cognitive factors in the generation of stress, namely perceived coping incapacity (PCI), relate to the extent of psychosomatic ailments.
  • (8) She emphasizes the mortality life expectancy at birth, abortion rate, work incapacity on account of illness and injury, morbidity from diabetes and tuberculosis, the trend of newly detected malignant tumours and causes of invalidity.
  • (9) Incapacity is the clinical state in which a patient is unable to participate in a meaningful way in medical decisions.
  • (10) The latter is now considered unnecessary as it serves merely to prolong duration of the patient's incapacity and to increase the cost of treatment.
  • (11) Geriatric patients showed physical and intellectual incapacity, psychiatric patients intellectual incapacity.
  • (12) There was no statistically significant difference in the frequency of recurrent myocardial infarction and in mortality depending on the size of the infarct suffered, while incapacity for work was encountered more frequently among persons in whom cardiac aneurysm has bee suspected.
  • (13) The chronic pain is the main cause of incapacity and may be responsible for the secondary articular alterations in theses patients.
  • (14) Testing the reliability and usefulness of disability scales in Parkinson's disease has been the object of a study carried out by 4 neurologists on 48 patients using 2 rating scales--Hoehn and Yahr staging and Columbia University Rating Scale--and 2 disability scales--Northwestern University Disability Scale and Extensive Disability Scale, a new scale conceived for this purpose, which is more accurate in examining in a different way the physical incapacity and handicap of parkinsonian patients in their daily living.
  • (15) Whilst long term disability rarely eventuates, the loss of enjoyment and temporary incapacity resulting from this type of injury is significant.
  • (16) In many patients, the tumours grew slowly and gave little incapacity.
  • (17) He added: "We are pressing ahead with radically overhauling the welfare system, with reassessments of those on incapacity benefits in Burnley and Aberdeen beginning this week.
  • (18) The following reasons are given for this conclusion : the direct surgical approach only rarely leads to isolation of the causal organism; although treatment based on knowledge of antibiotic sensitivity may help to restrict evolution of the disease, it does not reduce significantly, or only rarely, the permanent partial incapacity.
  • (19) Whatever the type of deficiency a child may have, and the subsequent incapacity, it is important to discern for therapy, the positive aspects of his personality as soon as possible in order to develop his chances for success and avoid set backs.
  • (20) We also demonstrate that the failure of low doses of IL2 to induce LAK activity is related to their incapacity to induce TNF production.

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