DISABLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disabling mean? 

• DISABLING (adjective)
  The adjective DISABLING has 2 senses:

1. that cripples or disables or incapacitates

2. depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified

  Familiarity information: DISABLING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISABLING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

That cripples or disables or incapacitates

Synonyms:

crippling; disabling; incapacitating

Context example:

a crippling injury

Similar:

unhealthful (detrimental to good health)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified

Synonyms:

disabling; disqualifying

Context example:

certain disabling restrictions disqualified him for citizenship

Antonym:

enabling (providing legal power or sanction)

 Context examples 

Others cases are disabling and severe.

(Muscular Dystrophy, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Lymphatic filariasis is a mosquito-borne disease that often leaves its victims with disabling hydrocele (accumulation of fluid in the scrotum), lymphedema or elephantiasis after the infection has cleared.

(New portable device to gauge severity of elephantiasis, SciDev.Net)

Schizophrenia is a severe and disabling brain disorder that usually strikes during young adulthood and lasts a lifetime.

(Over 100 Genetic Sites Tied to Schizophrenia, NIH)

Dr Susan Kohlhaas, Director of Research at the MS Society, said: MS is relentless, painful, and disabling, and treatments that can slow and prevent the accumulation of disability over time are desperately needed.

(Cambridge scientists reverse ageing process in rat brain stem cells, University of Cambridge)

A question about whether an individual's fatigue is or was among their most disabling symptoms.

(Fatigue among Most Disabling Symptoms, NCI Thesaurus)

Briefly disabling the SPG can disrupt and reset the headache circuit, breaking a cycle of severe migraines and reducing the need for medication.

(Innovative Treatment Offers Relief to Children with Frequent Migraine Headaches, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

NFKBIA tyrosine phosphorylation leads to dissociation from NFKB, disabling inhibition of NFKB DNA-binding.

(I Kappa B-Alpha Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Magnetic eruptions on the sun can impact air travel, disrupt satellite communications and bring down power grids, causing long-lasting blackouts and disabling technologies such as GPS.

(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)

National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers peered inside the brains of hundreds of multiple sclerosis patients and found that dark rimmed spots representing ongoing, smoldering inflammation, called chronic active lesions, may be a hallmark of more aggressive and disabling forms of the disease.

(Smoldering spots in the brain may signal severe multiple sclerosis, National Institutes of Health)

Stimulated by the microparticle-bound monoclonal antibodies, the infused T cells produce pro-inflammatory, anti-tumor cytokines such as like IFN-gamma, TNF-beta, and IL-2, disabling tumor immune avoidance mechanisms and stimulating the host immune system to both reject the infused T cells and kill tumor cells.

(Allogeneic CD4+ Memory Th1-like T Cells/Microparticle-bound Anti-CD3/anti-CD28, NCI Thesaurus)