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The phrase "a debility of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a weakness or impairment in a specific context, often relating to health or capability.
Example: "The patient was diagnosed with a debility of the muscular system, which affected their mobility."
Alternatives: "a weakness of" or "an impairment of".
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The first clinical description was provided by the English physician Michael Underwood in 1789, where he refers to polio as "a debility of the lower extremities".
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It might be the first signal of a debility that will become entrenched - or it may be nothing.
All my life I have thought of shyness as a debility, an inadequacy, an absence.
The death of Aetius in 454 and the growing debility of a western imperial government hamstrung by the loss of Africa to the Vandals created a power vacuum in Gaul.
He finds, eventually, not only the immediate trigger for her current madness but also its more remote origins in the emotional disturbances of her childhood and adolescence and, more distant still, in the macho brutalities of her father and the mental debility of a dreamy, delusional grandfather.
His claim that the political significance of the Jews throughout the political spectrum was a testimony to the debility of European culture and to the approaching crisis was greeted by National-Socialist authors.
Difficulties are due to debility of sight or a hardness of hearing which increases dependency in daily living.
Seeing that power develop through the appalling debility of her depression is a little storytelling miracle, one that makes Two Days, One Night far more accessible to the average viewer than most arthouse cinema.
Beyond the gas-light-era suspense of watching critical votes recounted by hand, the nation faces the question of how the eventual winner -- assuming Americans can be convinced of an eventual winner -- can recover from the debility of being so faintly chosen.
Like others, we found that improvements in functional well-being were greater than relief of symptoms, suggesting that cancer patients use CAM products for their effects, rather like a health promoting tonic, in strengthening their body's ability to recover from the debility of cancer treatment and support its ability to fight against cancer [ 22, 24, 25].
It's not only the debility of age.
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