What's the difference between indisposed and intolerant?

Indisposed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Indispose

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Your regular guides throughout this tournament are sadly indisposed – Jacob Steinberg getting his giant ball signed down in SW19 and Paul Doyle who has it in his contract that he never works when Mumford & Sons are playing live.
  • (2) But his eight-minute speech offered nothing new or concrete about America's actions on global warming, and he was as indisposed to be conciliatory as China.
  • (3) The act always began with an announcement that, unfortunately, 41 of the Flying Fletchers had been rendered indisposed with a pulled muscle: "Here are the other three."
  • (4) Arranged in a narrow formation lacking the width usually afforded by their indisposed full-backs Mathieu Debuchy and Davide Santon, Newcastle laboured.
  • (5) If he was late, indisposed or unable to tend to us for some reason, the only alternative was to hail a taxi – a very unpleasant prospect for a woman in a Saudi city.
  • (6) The fact that reactive astrocytes appeared in CA1 before the onset of visible neural degeneration indicates that signals from indisposed neurons may be transmitted to astrocytes for their quick functioning.
  • (7) With many former Middle East strongmen finding themselves indisposed after the Arab spring, all UN eyes on Friday will be fixed on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Iranian president, diplomatic headache and effortless controversialist.
  • (8) The fast changes in medical treatment procedures makes adequate techniques of information management indisposable.

Intolerant


Definition:

  • (a.) Not enduring; not able to endure.
  • (a.) Not tolerating difference of opinion or sentiment, especially in religious matters; refusing to allow others the enjoyment of their opinions, rights, or worship; unjustly impatient of the opinion of those disagree with us; not tolerant; unforbearing; bigoted.
  • (n.) An intolerant person; a bigot.

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.