| 单词 | dysfunction |
| 释义 | dysfunction (once / 6176 pages) n If there's dysfunction, then things aren't working right. High blood pressure is a medical dysfunction, and fighting amongst teammates is a kind of social dysfunction. If you know that function means to work, then you shouldn't be surprised that dysfunction means something isn't working. Blind people have an optical dysfunction. A family that yells all the time and never listens has a communication dysfunction. If your car breaks down, it has some kind of mechanical dysfunction. But if everything is going smoothly? You're dysfunction-free. WORD FAMILYdysfunction: dysfunctional, dysfunctions+/dysfunctional: dysfunctionally USAGE EXAMPLES“There’s no dysfunction. Everybody is on the same page,” Pegula said. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Alexander Payne’s About Schmidt is a relentlessly dark film on the painful theme of family dysfunction. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) According to Almond, “The queasy irony here is that Stewart and Colbert are parasites of the dysfunction they mock.” Salon(Dec 31, 2016) n (medicine) any disturbance in the functioning of an organ or body part or a disturbance in the functioning of a social group erectile dysfunction sexual relationship dysfunction Syn|Hypo|Hyper disfunction ED, erectile dysfunction, male erecticle dysfunction impotence resulting from a man's inability to have or maintain an erection of his penis palsy, paralysisloss of the ability to move a body part akinesia, akinesismotionlessness attributable to a temporary paralysis alaliaparalysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak cystoparalysis, cystoplegiaparalysis of the urinary bladder diplegiaparalysis of corresponding parts on both sides of the body Erb's palsy, Erb-Duchenne paralysisparalysis of the arm resulting from injury to the brachial plexus (usually during childbirth) monoplegiaparalysis of a single limb ophthalmoplegiaparalysis of the motor nerves of the eye paresisa slight or partial paralysis paraplegiaparalysis of the lower half of the body (most often as a result of trauma) hemiplegia, unilateral paralysisparalysis of one side of the body quadriplegiaparalysis of both arms and both legs pathology any deviation from a healthy or normal condition |
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