(a.) Not limited to rules prescribed, or to usual bounds; irregular; excessive; immoderate; as, an inordinate love of the world.
Example Sentences:
(1) The other striking feature of the mouse colon epithelium is the presence of an inordinate number of bacteria.
(2) Studies on animals implicating reflux of bile salts in formation of "stress ulcer" often are suspect because of the inordinately high intragastric concentrations of bile salts used to induce experimental acute gastric mucosal damage.
(3) An inordinately high proportion of patients under 40 years of age were nonwhite.
(4) If the marginal cost-effectiveness ratio is inordinately high, it is considered economically inappropriate.
(5) In the glycerol model of this syndrome, we demonstrate that the kidney responds to such inordinate amounts of heme proteins by inducing the heme-degradative enzyme, heme oxygenase, as well as increasing the synthesis of ferritin, the major cellular repository for iron.
(6) The data suggest that duodenal tumors masquerade as more common diseases and as a result, their diagnosis and treatment are delayed inordinately.
(7) Patients are already waiting inordinate periods of time for operations, often suffering painful or debilitating conditions.
(8) Based on their rate of progress in the development of speech skills, the children were divided into three groups post hoc: rapid, slow but steady, inordinately slow.
(9) Three of the 14 patients have had an inordinately long disease-free survival of 64, 75, and 80 months from the time of diagnosis.
(10) Some pituitary tumors contain an inordinate amount of connective tissue that often makes transsphenoidal resection difficult.
(11) An inordinately high rate or reproductive loss also was noted in 13 households where the man's estimated daily intake of caffeine was greater than 600 mg. A cause-and-effect relationship cannot be determined by this type of retrospective study, but physicians should keep in mind the possibility that an excessive intake of caffeine may be a factor in otherwise unexplainable spontaneous abortion or perinatal mortality.
(12) We report the successful use of the device in providing haemodynamic support, but caution against inordinate delay in bridging to transplantation patients who are at risk of extension of infarction.
(13) It is also suggested that, in those conditions that lead to an inordinate accumulation of Ca2+ into myocardial cells, the unmatched demands of energy and the depletion of ATP play a primary role in the irreversible stage of cell damage.
(14) Based on our experience the use of carbon dioxide for cystomanometry seems preferable in patients with spinal lesions above T5 since expedient deflation of the bladder can prevent an inordinate blood pressure increase.
(15) Those in private practice indicated financial constraints, lack of "control," and the requirement to be "political" as negative factors in academic centers, whereas those in academic positions indicated the inordinate amount of time that was required to achieve academic goals as the major negative factor.
(16) "In pure movie terms, however, it's also a bit of a slog, with an inordinate amount of exposition and lack of strong forward movement.
(17) Similarly, in the PAC time spectra the damping of the major oscillatory component was attributed to inordinately large charge fluctuation in the immediate environment of the 111mCd nucleus.
(18) Like it or not, we’re part of the world.” Mattis said that though there was a sense among some Americans that the country was bearing “an inordinate burden”, global engagement was still “very deeply rooted in the American psyche”.
(19) To evaluate the Center for Epidemiology Surveys-Depression (CES-D) scale for inordinate false positives, due to measurement of non-depression-related somatic complaints.
(20) Prolonged exercise resulted in an inordinately increased CK with only moderate elevations in lactate.
Undue
Definition:
(a.) Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond.
(a.) Not right; not lawful or legal; improper; as, an undue proceeding.
(a.) Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate; as, an undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution of law.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since doctors are generally accepted as experts on health matters, their apparent undue pessimism about cancer prognosis is unfortunate.
(2) It nevertheless remains unclear as to how much counseling must be done by pediatricians and at what intensity, so as to avoid undue harm.
(3) All of the hardware complications were managed without undue difficulty, and although they were a source of consternation to the surgeon, they did not affect the patients adversely.
(4) To feel like a useful human being without any stigma attached, without undue fears and pressures but with a sense of being needed and wanted, that is what life is all about.
(5) A leaked cabinet committee memo in 2010 showed coalition ministers were advised on coming into government that it was wrong "to regard radicalisation in this country as a linear 'conveyor belt' moving from grievance, through radicalisation, to violence … This thesis seems to both misread the radicalisation process and to give undue weight to ideological factors".
(6) The causes of barotrauma were: 1) Undue length of the tube pressed by machine's wheel which connect the ventilator to the anesthesia machine.
(7) Civil libertarians have long expressed alarm that the only judicial body charged with protecting Americans from undue, intrusive federal surveillance so frequently endorses the government's requests.
(8) The warming is expected to continue without undue problems for 30 years but beyond 2050 the effects could be dramatic with staple crops hit.
(9) Our observations indicated that the coronary reserve capacity was very important for ventricular pacing, and suggested that an undue increment of the pacing rate not only might be meaningless but also might induce ischemic angina.
(10) In a letter to investors , CtW said: "The sudden concentration of ownership in a single individual marks a significant shift in Walgreen's governance structure, raising questions about whether Pessina could have undue influence.
(11) We’re also concerned about the undue corporate influence in the trade negotiating process.” In ways helping the progressives’ cause, some conservative and Tea Party groups, like American for Limited Government, also oppose fast track and TPP.
(12) Through improved radiation protection this therapy can be performed without undue exposure of the testes.
(13) In addition, the total population of children under the age of 16 living in a working class area exposed to undue amounts of lead was examined in an attempt to determine whether their mental development had been affected.
(14) Then I was seen as someone who, when she was in power, didn’t want anything to do with them.” She was portrayed as meddlesome and pushy, with an undue influence on both Hollande’s policies and his wardrobe.
(15) Although the complex inhibits tumor growth without undue initial toxocity, longer-term side effects limit the use of the compound.
(16) The culture is driven by exerting undue pressure on others to get things done.
(17) That many ministers are from the RSS is reality, but that does not mean [the organisation] has an undue influence on policy … We are simply following up on our electoral pledges to bring development, prosperity to all Indians and to fulfil all Indians’ aspirations,” said Nalin Kohli, a spokesman for the BJP.
(18) BT has lodged a complaint with Ofcom on the grounds that BSkyB is showing "undue discrimination" against it by refusing to air the campaign.
(19) "Health care personnel may not apply undue pressure of any sort on individuals who have opted for the extreme recourse of a hunger strike.
(20) In 1992, the supreme court’s decision in Planned Parenthood v Casey nominally upheld Roe v Wade, but it replaced Roe’s clear rules with a holding that abortion regulations, even in the first trimester of pregnancy, were unconstitutional only if they constituted an “undue burden”.