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impairment

/im-pair-muhnt/US // ɪmˈpɛər mənt //

减损,减值,损伤,损害

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state of being diminished, weakened, or damaged, especially mentally or physically: cognitive impairment in older adults.

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Examples

  • Families shoulder these responsibilities because about 70 percent of assisted living residents have some form of cognitive impairment, including dementia.

  • For web users with visual impairment using screen readers, descriptive alt text is read aloud.

  • Many nursing home residents have some degree of mental impairment — nearly half of long-term care patients suffer from dementia or Alzheimer’s.

  • This makes your content accessible for people with visual impairments and makes sure Google correctly interprets what those visual elements are.

  • We did all sorts of metabolic studies to try to find out if there was an impairment we could detect.

  • The fewer diagnostic criteria required to call a person impaired, the more “any difficulty whatsoever” can be deemed impairment.

  • A more precise association of THC levels and degrees of impairment are not yet available.

  • Yet in this case, the degree of impairment seems to have been similar on both sides.

  • There were some memory lapses, there were some major issues … we found no evidence of any kind of major impairment.

  • Seizure disorder, severe developmental delays and neurological impairment, feeding tube and tracheotomy.

  • It was an acid test of his sanity and he knew as he worked that his reasoning faculties at least had suffered no impairment.

  • From these details it is evident that epilepsy is not of necessity associated with impairment of the physical or mental health.

  • That is to say, if he feels himself compelled to the commission of crime, there is surely an impairment of responsibility.

  • A bad rippling, any serious accidental or temporary impairment of the faculties, meant swift death.

  • There are certain deductions, a certain percentage of impairment to be allowed for, but the general statement holds.