'damage and dysfunction' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when talking about the damage or dysfunction caused by something, such as an illness, injury, or environmental factor. For example, you could say, "The brain injury caused severe damage and dysfunction to the patient's cognitive abilities."
Nothing short of a total overhaul of the constitution will repair the years of accumulated damage and dysfunction, he believes.
It can induce an acute stress reaction in glial cells of mouse brains, leading to neuron damage and dysfunction [11].
And Dr. Julian's findings indicated that intestinal epithelium was more susceptible to mitochondrial damage and dysfunction than the lung epithelium in the context of sepsis [5].
Preeclampsia, characterized by widespread endothelial damage and dysfunction, systemic toxicity, coagulation defects, and an increased systemic inflammatory response, poses some risk factors for hearing loss.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease characterized by insulin resistance; inflammation; oxidative stress; vascular damage; and dysfunction of glucose, protein, and lipid metabolisms.
A growing body of evidence has implicated apoptosis as a key determinant of the extent of neurological damage and dysfunction after acute spinal cord injury and in chronic cervical myelopathy.
Mitochondrial damage and dysfunction have been shown to alter mitochondrial localization.
Oxidative exposure of cells occurs naturally and may be associated with cellular damage and dysfunction.
Hypothermia reduced myocardial damage and dysfunction after cardiopulmonary resuscitation possible via a reduced rate of apoptosis and pro-inflammatory cytokine expression.
A newer method to identify endothelial damage and dysfunction is the quantification of circulating endothelial cells (CECs) and endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) in the peripheral circulation.
Heparanase activity correlates with damage and dysfunction of the glomerular basement membrane, leading in many cases to proteinuria [9], [22], [23].
