How To Use Debility In A Sentence

  • Food, however nutritious, which is too quickly digested, is soon followed by a sense of hunger and emptiness, and consequent sinking and debility. The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines
  • Danlo, who sometimes recalled every day of his life since he was four years old, could only bow his head in respect for her debility. THE BROKEN GOD
  • He appears to have some sort of age-related mental debility.
  • Grieve says it "is a good remedy for enfeebled digestion and debility," that it "will relieve melancholia and help to dispel the yellow hue of jaundice from the skin," that it acts as a diuretic, that it's a good vermifuge duh, and that it's a good "mental restorative. Absinthe
  • Furthermore, AIDS typically does not kill its victims immediately but subjects them to a prolonged period of gradually mounting debility and incapacity.
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  • After her operation she suffered from general debility.
  • _ When the defect of the due action of both the absorbent and secerning vessels of the liver affects women, and is attended with obstruction of the catamenia, it is called chlorosis; and is cured by the exhibition of steel, which restores by its specific stimulus the absorbent power of the liver; and the menstruation, which was obstructed in consequence of debility, recurs. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • Its position will be recognized on the vertical line between the frontal and occipital, as it is not an element of energy and success, nor of debility, but simply an element of debasing animalism, which is not destitute of force. Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11
  • It is an early modern concept, although it has correlatives from the time of the Greeks in allied concepts of stress, debility, appetitive, and saturnine behaviour.
  • Coronary Artery Disease is a major cause of debility and death in the United States and in other developed nations.
  • On the day after her arrival, she sent several cases ( "chronic dysentry, hepatitis, and general debility") to hospital, but not one of cholera; neither did any case occur on board during her stay there, at anchor a mile and a half from shore, and constantly communicating with shore, [5] while a considerable number of deaths took place from cholera _in the merchant vessels anchored near shore_. Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or throug
  • For months I had suffered unexplained pain, weight loss, and increased debility.
  • The two main causes are lead and nitrates which can bring about debility, heart weakness and cancer.
  • And yet, 40 percent of us will die after a period of protracted debility and feeble dementia stretching on average for some seven to 10 years.
  • A decoction, infusion or tincture of the seeds is useful in nervous debility, hysteria and other nervous disorders.
  • When I began wondering about what it's like to get older, I couldn't find much good, popular writing about it that is not focused on decline, debility and death.
  • Perhaps it was not surprising that he complained of physical debility.
  • He scarcely appeared half his usual height; his joints were unknit, his limbs would not support him; his face was contracted, his eye wandering; debility of purpose and dastard fear were expressed in every gesture. The Last Man
  • Symptoms of chronic intoxication include anorexia, gastrointestinal disturbances, debility, confusion, dermatitis, menstrual disorders, anemia, convulsions, and alopecia.
  • The symptoms were of severe general debility and vitamin deficiency.
  • These include trauma, sunlight, high fever, and general debility.
  • -- The principal causes of scanty or deficient menstruation are inflammation of the ovaries; ovarian tumors, consumption, or other wasting diseases; anteflexion of the womb; mental depression, or general debility. Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.
  • The loss of phosphate, which is necessary for bone structure and muscle energy, correlates with debility and pain. After the Diagnosis
  • In the early '90s, Paul Krugman still despaired of American debility, rooted in lousy productivity. Robert Teitelman: Transactions: Oct. 18, 2010
  • But even as he spoke, it occurred to him he was far from fine and that this heat had more to do with debility than desire. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • He is now, at 79, battling the increasing debility of his body, which is failing under the invasion of Parkinson's disease.
  • A small or weak pulse indicates general debility and possible anemia.
  • And at the extremes, there are certainly correlations between advanced age and debility that increase the risk of complications.
  • Breast-feeding could lead to ‘infantine debility which might lead to curvature of the spine, or intestinal diseases, where the addition to, or total substitution of, an artificial… aliment’ would help.
  • On one level he clearly wants to overcome his debility, and live comic performance is the extraordinary way in which he has chosen to do that.
  • Many, though not all, cases resulting in debility stemmed from chronic diarrhea or dysentery.
  • Irregularity of menstruation and certain other uterine troubles, the peculiar condition called greensickness or chlorosis, and general debility may lead to some skin lesions.
  • Age, debility, poverty and illness were often factors that led to a favorable decision.
  • Similar to this in a less degree is the subsultus tendinum, or starting of the tendons, in fevers with debility; these actions of the muscles are too weak to move the limb, but the belly of the acting muscles is seen to swell, and the tendon to be stretched. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • The Vice Dean reminded us of a significance of a comments of Enobarbus as a shrewd as good as mostly sarcastic spectator of this adore affair: an researcher both detered by his master's debility in agreeable to Cleopatra's charming energy as good as fascinated himself by a Egyptian queen's witchery. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
  • Making a fresh resolution to eat properly I was tempted to attribute a large part of my recent debility to inadequate nutrition. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • Quinine, among other properties has a tonic which suggests its use in cases of debility; an antiperiodic, which renders it efficient in ague; and an anti-febrile property, which renders it efficacious in cases of fever. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
  • General debility because of long working hours, and low and infrequent intake of food and nutrition
  • She will remember her father, who served in both world wars, and whose life was fore-shortened by nervous debility brought on by his experiences.
  • There are instances of debauched and shameless old age which, deficient in vital resources, strives to supply their place by fictitious excitement; a kind of brutish lasciviousness, that is ever the more cruelly punished by nature, from the fact that the immediately-ensuing debility is in direct proportion to the forced stimulation which has preceded it. Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.
  • After her operation she suffered from general debility.
  • Heart disease in a leading cause of death and debility among our canine friends.
  • Affects include desires, wishes, a sense of health or debility: They are ideational indicants of bodily thriving or declining.
  • The latter has its origin in a stricture, or in an injury, or in that condition technically known as hypospadias, or in debility. Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics
  • In the same manner, there is a catarrh, which is liable to afflict persons who have often been subject to an inflammatory cold, particularly persons advanced in years; and this depends on a state of indirect debility of the parts, the excitability of which has been exhausted by frequent and violent inflammatory affections. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
  • When I found him suffering from general debility and nervous prostration.
  • In the genus cynanche of the latter, are placed the common sthenic or inflammatory sore throat, or cynanche tonsillaris, and the putrid or gangrenous sore throat, the cynanche maligna: the former is a sthenic disease; the latter one of the greatest debility; yet they have the same generic name. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
  • It is just as meaningful to speak of levels of vitality and healthfulness as of debility and infirmity.
  • The symptoms which distinguish Irritative fever are a dry and red tongue; a sharp, small, but frequent pulse; subsultus; restlessness and delirium, which soon give place to signs of debility, with coma and cerebral irritation, sudden exacerbations, unequal and irregular remissions; rapid and important changes are also frequent concomitants of this form of disease. An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
  • Illnesses, including chronic muscle debility, herpes, tremors and eye infections, have come and gone.
  • Prolonged immobilization, such as may occur with hospitalization, trauma, or general debility, is one risk factor.
  • Extract of malt I have employed as a roborant, either alone or in conjunction with iron, in cases of debility and malnutrition, and found it of service. The Electric Bath
  • If the quantity of sensorial power remains the same, and the quantity of stimulus be lessened, a weakness of the fibrous contractions ensues, which may be denominated _debility from defect of stimulus_. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • In respect to the sympathies of action, which produce or constitute fever with debility, the system may be divided into certain provinces, which are assentient or opposite to each other. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • John Andrews, Minister of Finance, was born in the same year as Craig and, despite clear signs of physical debility, was to be the Prime Minister's successor.
  • It is just as meaningful to speak of levels of vitality and healthfulness as of debility and infirmity.

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