Sentence examples for an inability to detect from inspiring English sources

Injury or disease of the olfactory nerve may result in anosmia, an inability to detect odours; it may also dull the sense of taste.

An Underrecognized Problem While reliable statistics are hard to come by, several million Americans are thought to suffer from the major smell disorders: hyposmia, a reduced ability to detect certain odors; anosmia, an inability to detect any odors at all; or dysosmia, in which pleasant odors can smell foul or vice versa.

Negative results for benzodiazepines could possibly be explained by an "as needed" use of the medications and/or the fact that some urine tests have an inability to detect clonazepam [1].

An ongoing issue with complex proteomic experiments is the low statistical power of an experiment resulting in an inability to detect biologically significant changes.

This result could be due either to loss of EGFRs or to an inability to detect EGFRs when they are not clustered.

The reduction in conditioned responses could reflect a cognitive deficit that is manifested as an inability to detect and/or respond to the visual stimulus.

The daily smells of the world the freshness of spring flowers, the smokiness of charred morning toast, the invigorating aroma of a cup of coffee are lost on those with anosmia, a complete inability to detect odors.

This explanation would entail that some trainees, due to a personal inability to detect sufficient numbers, are in need for a greater supervision during apprenticeship.

This is due to a perceived higher cost and apparent technical issues, such as a possible inability to detect balanced translocations or cases of triploidy by CMA.

Even if they occurred more often, the usefulness of inspections is limited by a practical inability to detect microbial pathogens.

"Ooookkkk," I wrote in my notebook, once again noting a total inability to detect alcohol content (other than the increasingly obvious effects the L.I.T.s were having on my behavior).