Sentences with phrase «completely nonfunctional»

It is a condition that at times has left me paralyzed and almost completely nonfunctional.

You start with a kind of memory impairment where you forget where you put your car keys, but you end up with somebody completely nonfunctional, unable to speak or recognize their own kids.

Not exact matches

We identified human X-linked genes whose gametologs have been pseudogenized or completely lost from the Y chromosome and inferred which evolutionary forces may be acting to retain genes on the Y. Although gene loss appears to be largely correlated with the suppression of recombination, we observe that X-linked genes with functional Y homologs evolve under stronger purifying selection and are expressed at higher levels than X-linked genes with nonfunctional Y homologs.

It's possible their eyes weren't formed completely in the womb, or there was a trauma that caused them to be nonfunctional.