| 词汇 | impairment |
| 释义 | impairment noun[ U ] uk /ɪmˈpeə.mənt/ us /ɪmˈper.mənt/ the act of spoiling something or making it weaker so that it is less effective损伤，损害 medical specialized deterioration in the functioning of a body part, organ, or system that can be temporary or permanent and can result from injury or disease: （身体功能的）障碍 Renal impairment needs to be treated urgently.肾功能障碍必须尽快医治。 Damaging and spoiling adulterant adulterate adulterated adulteration applecart butcher drive a wedge between someoneidiom dry rot eat eat away at something erode foul queer rain on someone's paradeidiom rampage ravage ravages seismic sour wreck You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Deteriorating and making worse Disease & illness - general words impairment | Business Englishimpairment noun[ U ] uk /ɪmˈpeəmənt/us ACCOUNTING a situation in which the value of an asset is recorded as being greater than the amount of money that it could be sold for: CPAs should test for impairment when the market price of a long-lived asset significantly decreases. asset impairment Examples of impairmentimpairment Memory complaints do reflect perceptions of past memory performance and are also an early manifestation of memory impairment. In contrast, women with initially low levels that recovered through the course of pregnancy had children at less risk of later impairment. It was supposed that this approach may test a general model situation in other studies of impairment of cell nucleus function in embryonic development. One may, therefore, argue that the threshold should be set lower in adults, who might experience impairment at fewer symptoms. Part of my rationale for this position is the consensus opinion that the cognitive impairments of a dementia must be ' sufficient ' to cause disability. A common impairment in the siblings of schizophrenia and bipolar patients was found in verbal learning tests. Female co-twins showed impairment in verbal learning and memory. The relevance of specific language impairment in understanding the role of transfer in second language acquisition. The nature of the visual/perceptual impairment may also be important if the role of parts versus overall shape differs across categories (see above). They found that children with language impairments made more errors during the production of verb particles than for prepositions. Over the past two decades, evidence supporting a continuum between oral and written language impairments has continued to mount. More obviously, upper-limb impairment may result in problems preparing and cutting food and delivering it to the mouth. On two executive tests there was significantly more impairment in the nonresponder group compared to responders. Given that the ill-health status group were significantly more depressed, it was likely that this factor could contribute to the cognitive impairments noted. Present and future possibilities for defining a phenotype for specific language impairment. See all examples of impairment These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withimpairmentimpairmentThese are words often used in combination with impairment. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. cognitive impairment Scores less than 18 indicate severe cognitiveimpairment; scores 18-23 indicate mild cognitiveimpairment; scores 24 or higher indicate no cognitiveimpairment (32;39). functional impairment However, many patients also reported persisting functionalimpairment. hepatic impairment The half-life of rifampicin ranges from 1.5 to 5.0 hours, though hepatic impairment will significantly increase it. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with impairment |
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