| 单词 | dysfunction |
| 释义 | dysfunction|dɪsˈfʌŋkʃən|
[f. dys- + function n.]
Any abnormality or impairment of function. Hence dysˈfunctional a., dysˈfunctionally adv., dysˈfunctioning vbl. n.
1916in Gould's Practitioner's Med. Dict. (ed. 3) 307/2. 1927 Henderson & Gillespie Text-Bk. Psychiatry xi. 355 An aplasia or dysfunction of the tissues. 1933Mind XLII. 114 The physiological [point of view] (which subordinates neural to glandular, circulatory, etc., dysfunctioning). 1936Brit. Med. Jrnl. 28 Mar. 630/1 The school of endocrine dysfunction incriminates variously the thyroid, parathyroid, ovarian, and pituitary glands. 1949R. K. Merton Social Theory & Social Struct. (1951) i. i. 51 Unintended consequences of action are..those which are irrelevant to the system which they affect neither functionally nor dysfunctionally. 1952T. Parsons Social System ii. 35 They must be counteracted by ‘mechanisms of control’ unless dysfunctional consequences are to ensue. 1959G. D. Mitchell Sociology i. ii. 38 That it is functional..for mothers of young children to go out to work does not mean that it is not dysfunctional for the well-being of their children. 1959B. Wootton Social Sci. vii. 225 A social judgment is still implied in the decision to rank the thieving tendency together with its bodily concomitants as symptoms of disease or dysfunction. 1969R. Blackburn in Cockburn & Blackburn Student Power 186 Thus the 1929 crash was ‘dysfunctional’ for capitalism and so was the Chinese People's Liberation Army ‘dysfunctional’ for the social order of Nationalist China in the nineteen thirties and forties. 1971Optometry Today (Amer. Optometric Assoc.) 12 Corrective lenses or visual training techniques to correct or improve the perceptual-motor dysfunction. |
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