noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hearing problem/difficulty/impairment
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a special telephone for people with hearing problems
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cognitive
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The complete lack of cognitive improvements leads them to suggest that cognitive impairment is intrinsically associated with long-term morbidity in schizophrenia.
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They can create nocturnal confusion, can result in cognitive and motor impairment , and can increase the risks of falls.
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Table 4.5 shows that, as we would expect, cognitive impairment increased over the year in all samples.
renal
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In particular, the frequency of the dose should be reduced in patients with renal impairment , including elderly people.
visual
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An artist who has a visual impairment , working with and not against its limitations.
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Nausea, visual impairment , or headache occasionally occur.
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Five years after his illness began the patient complained of progressive visual impairment .
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However, visual impairment does seem to be related to both anxiety and depression.
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An additional 5 % to 10 % of all children have significant visual impairment that could be corrected if glasses were available.
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These activities capitalise on the strengths of pupils, whether they have visual impairment , severe learning difficulties or other special needs.
■ NOUN
hearing
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This is one reason why hearing impairment in childhood is totally different from hearing loss in adult life.
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The authors recognise the many methodological problems in studying disabilities that may result from hearing impairment .
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Hearing checks are essential as conductive hearing impairment is very frequent in young children.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The changes resulted in an impairment of the firm's ability to borrow money.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Hearing impairment , Hearing Science notes, afflicts one-in-four persons 65 or older and one-in-three 75 or older.
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Interestingly, the impairment is of the ability to form new memories, not the ability to recall stored memories.
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It is probably due to the accompanying impairment in protein metabolism.
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Most measures of morbidity which assess functional impairment , of which sickness absence is one, are influenced by factors other than health.
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Need I add that impairment is more to my liking than good health?
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Pollution, though often more insidious in its effects, can cause ill-health and even permanent intellectual impairment .
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The occurence of acute hepatic impairment with intravenous amiodarone does not necessarily preclude the use of this drug by mouth.