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US
/ˌɪmˈpɛɹmənt/
]
[ UK /ɪmpˈeəmənt/ ]
[ UK /ɪmpˈeəmənt/ ]
NOUN
- the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
- a symptom of reduced quality or strength
- damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality
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the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness
reading disability
hearing impairment - the occurrence of a change for the worse
How To Use impairment In A Sentence
- And some soil-based diseases not only cause physical symptoms, but create cognitive impairment too, crippling a child's long-term potential. Blake Mycoskie: Today, TOMS Asks You to Go 'One Day Without Shoes'
- Exceptional items, joint ventures and impairment of assets were excluded. Times, Sunday Times
- But it has mainly been studied in particular patients with profound impairments of memory, despite otherwise normal cognitive ability and intelligence.
- Should they be allowed to cancel each other or should the first asset be disaggregated from the group with a recognized impairment?
- Objective To evaluate visual impairment by visual function and quality of life assessment in elderly population.
- Other impairments include single frequency intermodulation distortion, impulse noise, co-channel interference and ghosting.
- They can create nocturnal confusion, can result in cognitive and motor impairment, and can increase the risks of falls.
- The win comes as unions call for the focus of drinking to be on impairment, its occupational health and safety implications and its wider causes such as fatigue, overwork, and the use of casuals and outsourcing.
- -- A selective allosteric potentiator of the M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor increases activity of medial prefrontal cortical neurons and restores impairments in reversal learning. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
- In the current study, Dr. Maurer, together with Susan Delisle, NP, and the Healthcare Innovation and Technology Lab at Columbia University, found significant discrepancies between self-reported fatigue and actigraphy readings, suggesting that these readings provide complimentary and important information about the link between heart failure, sleep disorders and impairments in health-related quality of life that may be operative through anergia. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories