disablement
Noun
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The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness (synset 114571935)
"reading disability"; "hearing impairment"is a type of: softness, unfitness - poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury)subtypes:
- bandy leg, bandyleg, bow leg, bowleg, genu varum, tibia vara - a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee)
- anorgasmia - absence of an orgasm in sexual relations
- dysphasia - an impairment of language (especially speech production) that is usually due to brain damage
- disability of walking - a disability that interferes with or prevents walking
- astasia - inability to stand due to muscular incoordination
- amputation - a condition of disability resulting from the loss of one or more limbs
- hearing disorder, hearing impairment - impairment of the sense of hearing
- dysomia - impairment of the sense of smell
- vision defect, visual defect, visual disorder, visual impairment - impairment of the sense of sight
- descensus, prolapse, prolapsus - the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus)
- hypesthesia, hypoesthesia - impairment of tactile sensitivity; decrease of sensitivity
- genu valgum, knock-knee, tibia valga - an inward slant of the thigh
- pigeon toes - disability in which the toes are turned inward; often associated with knock-knee
- bandy legs, bow leg, bow legs - outward curvature of the legs
- disintegration - a loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system
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