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US
/dəˈbɪɫəti/
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[ UK /dɪbˈɪlɪti/ ]
[ UK /dɪbˈɪlɪti/ ]
NOUN
- the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
How To Use debility In A Sentence
- Affects include desires, wishes, a sense of health or debility: They are ideational indicants of bodily thriving or declining.
- On one level he clearly wants to overcome his debility, and live comic performance is the extraordinary way in which he has chosen to do that.
- Many, though not all, cases resulting in debility stemmed from chronic diarrhea or dysentery.
- Irregularity of menstruation and certain other uterine troubles, the peculiar condition called greensickness or chlorosis, and general debility may lead to some skin lesions.
- Age, debility, poverty and illness were often factors that led to a favorable decision.
- Similar to this in a less degree is the subsultus tendinum, or starting of the tendons, in fevers with debility; these actions of the muscles are too weak to move the limb, but the belly of the acting muscles is seen to swell, and the tendon to be stretched. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
- The Vice Dean reminded us of a significance of a comments of Enobarbus as a shrewd as good as mostly sarcastic spectator of this adore affair: an researcher both detered by his master's debility in agreeable to Cleopatra's charming energy as good as fascinated himself by a Egyptian queen's witchery. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
- Making a fresh resolution to eat properly I was tempted to attribute a large part of my recent debility to inadequate nutrition. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
- Quinine, among other properties has a tonic which suggests its use in cases of debility; an antiperiodic, which renders it efficient in ague; and an anti-febrile property, which renders it efficacious in cases of fever. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
- General debility because of long working hours, and low and infrequent intake of food and nutrition