IMPAIRMENT


Meaning of IMPAIRMENT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a hearing problem/difficulty/impairment

a special telephone for people with hearing problems

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

cognitive

The complete lack of cognitive improvements leads them to suggest that cognitive impairment is intrinsically associated with long-term morbidity in schizophrenia.

They can create nocturnal confusion, can result in cognitive and motor impairment , and can increase the risks of falls.

Table 4.5 shows that, as we would expect, cognitive impairment increased over the year in all samples.

renal

In particular, the frequency of the dose should be reduced in patients with renal impairment , including elderly people.

visual

An artist who has a visual impairment , working with and not against its limitations.

Nausea, visual impairment , or headache occasionally occur.

Five years after his illness began the patient complained of progressive visual impairment .

However, visual impairment does seem to be related to both anxiety and depression.

An additional 5 % to 10 % of all children have significant visual impairment that could be corrected if glasses were available.

These activities capitalise on the strengths of pupils, whether they have visual impairment , severe learning difficulties or other special needs.

■ NOUN

hearing

This is one reason why hearing impairment in childhood is totally different from hearing loss in adult life.

The authors recognise the many methodological problems in studying disabilities that may result from hearing impairment .

Hearing checks are essential as conductive hearing impairment is very frequent in young children.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The changes resulted in an impairment of the firm's ability to borrow money.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Hearing impairment , Hearing Science notes, afflicts one-in-four persons 65 or older and one-in-three 75 or older.

Interestingly, the impairment is of the ability to form new memories, not the ability to recall stored memories.

It is probably due to the accompanying impairment in protein metabolism.

Most measures of morbidity which assess functional impairment , of which sickness absence is one, are influenced by factors other than health.

Need I add that impairment is more to my liking than good health?

Pollution, though often more insidious in its effects, can cause ill-health and even permanent intellectual impairment .

The occurence of acute hepatic impairment with intravenous amiodarone does not necessarily preclude the use of this drug by mouth.

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