IMPAIRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impaired mean? 

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

1. diminished in strength, quality, or utility

2. mentally or physically unfit

  Familiarity information: IMPAIRED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPAIRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Diminished in strength, quality, or utility

Context example:

impaired eyesight

Similar:

anosmic (having impaired sense of smell)

broken (weakened and infirm)

dickey; dicky ((British informal) faulty)

diminished; lessened; vitiated; weakened (impaired by diminution)

dysfunctional (impaired in function; especially of a bodily system or organ)

dyslectic; dyslexic (having impaired ability to comprehend written words usually associated with a neurologic disorder)

Also:

damaged (harmed or injured or spoiled)

injured (harmed)

Antonym:

unimpaired (not damaged or diminished in any respect)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Mentally or physically unfit

Synonyms:

afflicted; impaired

Similar:

unfit (not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition)

 Context examples 

To see whether Stat3 might be a potential therapeutic target, the group analyzed models of impaired muscle regeneration.

(Controlling Muscle Repair, NIH)

Fostriecin inhibits topoisomerase II catalytic activity, resulting in impaired DNA and RNA synthesis in various malignant cell types.

(Fostriecin, NCI Thesaurus)

To determine if this change might be associated with impaired heart function in humans, the team analyzed tissue from healthy donors and patients with heart disease.

(Microtubules’ role in heart cell contraction revealed, NIH)

Hamilton Depression Rating Scale 21 Item (HAMD-21) Retardation; psychomotor (slowness of thought and speech, impaired ability to concentrate, decreased motor activity).

(HAMD-21 - Retardation, NCI Thesaurus)

If you have a movement disorder, you experience these kinds of impaired movement.

(Movement Disorders, NIH)

An injury to the specialized cardiac conduction system that results in impaired signal transmission.

(Heart Block by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Once that happens, your normal function in the brain gets impaired.

(Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Developed in Australia Shows Promise, VOA)

But for rats on a healthy diet, the probiotics had little impact on microbial diversity and actually impaired recognition memory.

(Probiotics May Not Always Be A Silver Bullet for Better Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In contrast, the abdominal diameters of mosquitoes treated with VU041 increased but didn’t decrease, suggesting that kidney function was impaired.

(Novel insecticide blocks mosquitoes’ ability to urinate, NIH)

A speech disorder resulting in impaired utterance of sounds by the vocal folds.

(Dysphonia, NCI Thesaurus)