(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.
(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.
Unfitness
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) An additional 1.3% of the persons studied needed this operation, but were unfit for surgery.
(2) In unfit patients with advanced disease, palliation from the use of radiotherapy and Celestin tube insertion were poor.
(3) He was first deemed medically unfit to be detained in October, but has remained in custody.
(4) These people would be out of their depth in a paddling pool, and couldn’t be more unfit to run a modern political party.
(5) There were no significant differences between fit and unfit dogs for post exercise plasma concentrations of aspartate aminotransferase, white blood cell count or total protein, although the unfit dogs showed a tendency towards higher values.
(6) He has, however, refused to testify, invoking his right to remain silent, while his lawyer has insisted his client is “insane” and therefore unfit for trial.
(7) He was later ruled unfit to stand trial on physical and mental grounds.
(8) Extra-anatomic bypass grafting has been used as treatment for patients with aorto-iliac disease who were considered unfit for aortic surgery.
(9) Our findings suggest that for patients with stage I endometrial cancer who are unfit for surgery, intracavitary low-dose-rate radiation therapy alone is an effective alternative treatment with a low risk of complications.
(10) It’s extraordinary that you can continue to make law when you are unfit to face it.
(11) It is a simple and effective procedure with minimal complications, and it is especially recommended for those patients who are medically unfit for general anaesthesia.
(12) There were 10 deaths within a month of operation (0.9%), 9 of these patients having been exceptionally old and unfit.
(13) Only 69.3% were declared fit and the overall unfit rate was 22.1%.
(14) He was freed by Jack Straw, the home secretary, on the grounds that medical experts said he was unfit to stand trial.
(15) This could happen if the official receiver thinks that your conduct has been 'unfit'.
(16) A motion brought by Britain’s Ukip, France’s Front National, and Italy’s 5 Star movement described Juncker as unfit to lead the EU executive because of his track record in Luxembourg.
(17) Variant 2 is limited to high 4-PA concentrations, being unfit in low ones for overestimating the data.
(18) In 1949 it was estimated that around 2 million homes were unfit for human habitation, too expensive to repair and earmarked for demolition.
(19) Universities are badly failing students with unfit teaching and old-fashioned methods and will have to radically modernise lectures and facilities if they want to raise fees, according to the Conservatives' spokesman on higher education.
(20) One man had his doctor's testimony, affirming he had a deformed ankle, thrown out, only to be dismissed as unfit from the army two years later, over the same ankle.