debilitadas

Debilitadas is the feminine plural form of the Spanish adjective debilitado, meaning weakened or reduced in strength. It describes entities whose vitality, virulence, or function has been diminished, either naturally or through intervention. The term is used across fields such as biology, medicine, and agriculture to characterize organisms, tissues, or cells with diminished activity. Grammatically, debilitadas agrees with feminine plural nouns; related forms include debilitado (masculine singular), debilitada (feminine singular), and debilitados (masculine plural).

In medical and scientific contexts, debilitadas often appears to indicate reduced viability or function. It is common in discussions of vaccines and pathogenic organisms. In particular, vacunas debilitadas or vacunas vivas atenuadas refer to vaccines that use live pathogens whose virulence has been attenuated to provoke an immune response with lower disease risk. The term is also used to describe plants, animals, or cells that are weakened by stress, injury, disease, or experimental manipulation.

Conceptually, debilitación denotes the process of becoming weaker, while atenuación refers to a deliberate reduction of virulence or activity, especially in vaccines. Debilitadas emphasizes the resulting state rather than the process itself, and its use spans clinical, laboratory, and agricultural contexts.

See also: debilitación, atenuación, vacunas vivas atenuadas.