Disturbance and impairment of skin sensations are observable both in experiments on the cerebrum of animals and in cases of cerebral disease in man.
Damage is also wrought by exciting local irritation, congestion, and inflammation of the sexual organs which result in impairment of the proper functions of these parts and in local disorders and distress.
The disease occurring in children is exceedingly difficult of cure and is often followed by impairment in the development of their maternal organs.
The patient feels generally pretty well, and is troubled chiefly by impairment of the voice, which is either husky, reduced to a mere whisper, or entirely lost.
The disease may exist for years without serious impairment resulting.
Finally, the full run of the giant is so heavy that no one without impairment of his health could long endure such rides.
The boy was even surprised that the little one's health thus far did not suffer any impairment and that she bore the journey, with everdecreasing stops, as well as himself.
The commercial disturbance and the impairment of national credit that would be thus occasioned can scarcely be overestimated.
When the causes are sought that underlie the various displacements of the uterus, they are generally to be found in an impairment of the pelvic floor, through some changes or accidents that are peculiar to pregnancy and delivery.
It never occurred to anybody that the malady could have anything to do with impairment of the sight.
Oddly enough, those who were the most uncompromising in their discouragement of supposed impostors had themselves recently become painfully conscious of impairment of vision.
This is a very important distinction, for an organic disease implies impairment of the tissues of the organ, while a functional disorder means only a disturbance of its action.
There are certain "real neuroses" such as paralysis and spinal-cord disease, which involve an organic impairment of nerve-tissue.
Another case would be this: In certain kinds of sculptures you could not possibly put that notice upon the face of the sculpture without a serious marring of it, without a serious impairment of its commercial value.
It is questionable whether, in the absence of such provision, the new privileges could be lawfully conferred upon authors who have assigned their rights without impairment of existing contracts.
Is the impairment or destruction of the particular piano, a destruction or extinction of that music?
It can be worked year after year without apparent impairmentof its fertility.
Can be worked year after year without apparent impairment of its fertility,' so the Report stated.
But it seems more reasonable to refer the symptoms to impairment of the highly complex nervous processes which form the physiological side of the moral faculties” (Quain’s Dictionary of Medicine, 1902).
It is largely characterised by moral symptoms, chief of which is an impairment of the faculty of psychological synthesis, an abolition and a contraction of the field of consciousness.
The problem here is not how to deal with a chronically dilated and hypertrophied heart, but with a heart which has just yielded during effort, mainly in consequence of the nutritionalimpairment of its walls.
He broke into a cold sweat, thought that his last hour had come, and for a short time had impairment of consciousness.
Almost always there is some impairment of power in the muscles of the throat on which the deposit had taken place, and there is, in consequence, a little difficulty in swallowing for a few days.
If this influence causes stimulation of both the brain and the thyroid, its excessive action may cause impairment of the brain and also hyperplasia of the thyroid.
The argument may be strengthened, however, by the discussion of the effect of the impairment of any of these links in the kinetic chain upon the conversion of latent into kinetic energy.
In short, the central effect is a vast impairment of Europe's current income and of the capital from which her future income will flow.
Last, but not least, is the impairment of that subtle but vital basis of business, commercial credit.
Introspective observation of pre-criminal states of mind by so-called normal persons reveals that in many of them there is animpairment of reason and will power, in others an exaltation amounting almost to hysteria.
But any marked falling off in either the nervous or endocrine factors has to be considered pathologic, due to an impairment of them by adverse environment.
The disease continued for so long a time that one might not unreasonably expect to find considerable actual impairment of her caligraphy.
Paralysis of the associated movements of elevation was excluded by the fact of the gradual onset, without an ictus, and by the absence of paralysis of convergence and of impairment of speech and intellect.
The prevailing mental defect is impairment of volition, which takes the form either of debility or of versatility of the will.
The Prohibition Amendment is not merely an impairment of the principle of self-government of the States; it constitutes an absolute abandonment of that principle.
To endure use, or continue in existence, without impairment or exhaustion; as, this cloth lasts better than that; the fuel will last through the winter.
Defn: A condition of nervous debility supposed to be dependent upon impairment in the functions of the spinal cord.
That the cause of this impairment of Booth's voice was due to the contraction and more or less complete obstruction of the nasal passages is too evident to call for comment.
A condition of nervous debility supposed to be dependent upon impairmentin the functions of the spinal cord.
