embarrassed and difficult digestion, sense of heat, fullness, uneasiness or pain in the abdomen, irregularity of bowels, a furred and pasty tongue, a sense of general debility, with frequency of cramps or contractions in the muscles of the extremities, especially at night.
In two patients, treatment was stopped slightly early (at 48 and 43.2 Gy) because of severe skin reaction, while in one elderly patient CRT was stopped after phase I (at 30 Gy) owing to general debility with treatment.
Clinical examination of individual animals reveals a biphasic febrile reaction with severe prostration and collapse in young animals, agalactia in milk animals, lymphadenitis, debility with jaundice and deaths in older age groups.
Three cases were diagnosed with depression, 2 with psychosis, 1 with 'traumatic neurosis', 1 with debility, 1 with intercostal neuritis (classified as organic) and one patient did not receive a diagnosis.
We seem to be in for a season of such debilities, with the arrival on the West End next month of the play of "The King's Speech," upon which last year's Oscar-winning film was based.
Frailty is a term describing a state of general debility associated with decline, disability, loss of independence, susceptibility to iatrogenic complications, and poor health outcomes [ 3, 4].
This includes older adults with physical debility, 28 people with diabetes, 29 adults accessing primary care services, 30 people with rheumatoid arthritis, 31– 35 and people with mental illness.
It is not concerned exclusively with debility, which looms so large in human experience, but deals with a much wider range of phenomena.
A comparative evaluation of inpatient rehabilitation for older adults with debility, hip fracture, and myopathy.
On the whole, it is probably better routinely to break up a so-called impaction of a fractured hip except when for some reason, such as old age with debility, or a systemic terminal disease, such as pernicious anemia, malignancy, or tabes dorsalis, the treatment of the fracture must be carried along on palliative lines.
Patients with severe extra-pyramidal symptoms (EPS), poor disease control, or severe debility that precluded cooperation with the bone density survey were excluded from the study.
