(n.) The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the day of the procedure, the patient arrives at 7 a.m., is shaved, prepared and operated on by a senior surgeon before impatient operations begin.
(2) The results of this study suggest that TABP and its components are not positively associated with physiological risk factors for CVD; and the impatience-aggression component of TABP is associated with lower levels of atherogenic lipids.
(3) By the beginning of the 1960s the American press began to see Salinger's refusal to engage with the public as a provocation, while critics became increasingly impatient with the spiritual worries of the Glass family.
(4) The Irritation and Impatience dimension was consistently related to task-induced changes in heart rate, both in regression analyses and in extreme group analyses of variance.
(5) He sighs, though whether this is out of weariness and regret, or impatience at my line of questioning, is difficult to tell.
(6) Immunity does not or only to a low extent influence impatient infections or the migration of reactivated somatic larvae.
(7) These results are consistent with reports that tobacco withdrawal increases difficulty concentrating and impatience but does not increase fatigue.
(8) The equally impatient Conservative MP Stephen Barclay waded in.
(9) Findings regarding the construct validity of Type A behaviour revealed its basic component to be impatience characterized by aggression, a chronic sense of time urgency and competitiveness.
(10) Dozens of fighters deployed at checkpoints outside the town appear impatient to move in.
(11) More than 15 million Egyptians have signed a petition calling for the president's downfall, furious at Morsi's unilateralism and impatient at plummeting living standards.
(12) Among the different components of Type A behaviour, Factor S (measuring speed and impatience) was found to be significantly higher in the study group.
(13) Everything else will be a band aid fix, not a long-term solution... Everything else will be the prisoner of impatience and that has brought us to this unacceptable and unstable status quo,” said Kerry.
(14) Indirect corroboration of the impact of environmental crisis is idicated by the prevalence of requests for this help in impatient cases of abuse (38 per cent) and ingestions (38 per cent) vs. controls (14 per cent).
(15) We present five case reports reviewing various current therapeutic options, including newer pharmacologic agents, and comment on alternatives to impatient management of pain crises.
(16) You can’t say that,” he says with impatient exasperation, when I suggest the Coalition , with its commanding majority in the lower house and its pretty well-known opposition to carbon pricing, is highly unlikely to ever back an ETS put forward by PUP even if the price is set at zero until certain that Australia’s trading partners have acted.
(17) Type A behaviour pattern, characterised by excessive competitiveness, impatience, hostility and time urgency, has been previously investigated as a risk factor for coronary heart disease.
(18) In contrast, subjects with high Hard-Driving scores, high Speed-Impatience scores, or high overall Type A scores did not evidence higher physiological arousal in response to either the cognitive or the physical exercise tasks.
(19) These normal sleep disturbances, combined with teenagers' natural tendency to stay up late, can make them excessively tired, irritable, impatient and depressed.
(20) Were Cook batting well, England would most likely win this match, his dismissal yesterday even more telling than one caused by a technical deficiency; the shot that caused him to drag on evidenced an impatient and frazzled man, precisely what he is not, but now is.
Intolerance
Definition:
(n.) Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.
(n.) The quality of being intolerant; refusal to allow to others the enjoyment of their opinions, chosen modes of worship, and the like; want of patience and forbearance; illiberality; bigotry; as, intolerance shown toward a religious sect.
Example Sentences:
(1) To investigate the relationship between Helicobacter pylori infection and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) intolerance and the effect of gold use on the seroprevalence of H. pylori.
(2) Several pedigrees have been reported in which defects of the insulin gene result in glucose intolerance or diabetes in affected members, but the role of insulin gene mutations in NIDDM is unknown.
(3) Total white cell counts were reviewed in paediatric in-patients with viral gastroenteritis, bacterial gastroenteritis, delayed recovery following acute gastroenteritis, viral lower respiratory tract infections and cow's milk protein intolerance.
(4) Stress may increase to an intolerable level with the number of tasks, with higher qualified work and due to the lack of familiarity with fellow workers in ever changing settings.
(5) In the remaining 39% the most common causes were represented by intolerance reactions (16%), infection causes (16%) and physical causes (13%).
(6) Thirteen asthmatic subjects (six aspirin tolerant and seven aspirin intolerant) in a stable clinical condition and ten healthy subjects were studied.
(7) In some of the 10 patients who tolerated cow's milk challenge clinically there was an increase in both IgA- and IgM-containing cells suggestive of a local immunological reaction although no clinical intolerance was provoked and other immunological signs were weak or absent.
(8) Obesity is characterized by a high risk for glucose intolerance and cardiovascular disease.
(9) To determine the pathogenesis of carbohydrate intolerance associated with gonadal dysgenesis, plasma glucose, insulin, glucagon, and growth hormone responses to oral glucose and intravenous tolbutamide, arginine and insulin were evaluated in 21 nonobese patients, 7-19 years old.
(10) Pregnancy, hyperthyroidism and intolerances are given as contraindications.
(11) Reasons for stopping treatment early included progressive disease, stable disease without symptomatic improvement, or severe toxicity deemed intolerable by either the patient or physician.
(12) An obsessional artist who was an enemy of all institutions, cinematic as well as social, and whose principal theme was intolerance, he invariably gets delivered to us today by institutions - most recently the National Film Theatre, which starts a Dreyer retrospective this month - that can't always be counted on to represent him in all his complexity.
(13) Most patients with abnormal OGTT's fell into the latter group, but some had glucose intolerance without either an exaggerated insulin response or insulin resistance.
(14) Commonly associated medical problems include hypertension in 50%, hyperlipidemia in 41%, and diabetes mellitus or glucose intolerance in 14%.
(15) Eleven infants recovering from protein-calorie malnutrition secondary to acquired monosaccharide intolerance were found to have reduced plasma bicarbonate concentration associated with inadequate weight gain.
(16) These include disease activity, presence or absence of symptoms, degree of deformity and resultant potential for complications, shoe intolerance, and level of activity.
(17) Our ability to design effective countermeasures to orthostatic circulatory intolerance is severely handicapped by our inadequate knowledge of the basic hemodynamic events incident to normal and abnormal orthostatic tolerance.
(18) Cow's milk protein intolerance (CMPI) is recognised as an important cause of protean symptoms in infants.
(19) Successful use of PMP in one steroid and cytotoxic drug intolerant patient with AIED led to its use in a total of eight patients.
(20) Extracardiac adverse effects of quinidine include potentially intolerable gastrointestinal effects and hypersensitivity reactions such as fever, rash, blood dyscrasias and hepatitis.