Sentence examples for impairment of intellect from inspiring English sources

In 1902, George Still, the father of British paediatrics, gave one of the earliest descriptions of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), calling it a "moral defect without general impairment of intellect" characterised by an "abnormal incapacity for sustained attention".

Since the falling sickness, as epilepsy used to be known, had shaming associations with "hysteria", masturbation, syphilis and impairment of the intellect leading to "epileptic insanity", it was unnameable, particularly when it struck a woman.

The infectious agents multiply in the meninges, where they produce a pus that thickens the cerebrospinal fluid, thereby causing various symptoms and complications such as seizures, deafness, blindness, paralysis, and various degrees of impairment of the intellect.

Dementia is characterized by a gradual and irreversible impairment of the intellect, memory, and personality.

It causes chronic sleepiness, headaches, impaired motor coordination, apathy, loss of intellect, and when not treated, death.

"There might be a misconception of intellect".

Equality is not the opposite of intellect; it depends on intellect for its true realization.

Robbery crime of intellect; murder is crime of base passions.

Hers was a formidable achievement of intellect and will.

He was a man of intellect and independent spirit.

Gossip is the acceptable face of intellect".