IMPOTENCE
\ˈɪmpətəns], \ˈɪmpətəns], \ˈɪ_m_p_ə_t_ə_n_s]\
Definitions of IMPOTENCE
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- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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Loss of power over one or more of the members. Commonly, it means want of sexual vigour; incapacity for copulation; and chiefly on the part of the male. It has, also, been used synonymously with sterility. Impotence may be absolute or relative, constitutional or local, direct or indirect, permanent or temporary.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Want of strength or power to perform anything; helplessness. Complete absence of sexual power; inability to copulate; generally applied to the male. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. Want of strength or power, whether animal or intellectual ; weakness ; feebleness ; imbecility ; - any defect of power. Whether natural or acquired ; inability ;- specifically the want of procreative power.
By Thomas Sheridan
