(a.) Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, DNA polymerase alpha, the enzyme involved in chromosomal DNA replication, was relatively insensitive to CA1.
(2) However, CT will be insensitive in the detection of the more cephalic proximal lesions, especially those in the brain stem, basal cisterns, and skull base.
(3) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
(4) The mechanism by which K+ accumulates in the follicle was insensitive to ouabain, so that a typical Na+, K(+)-ATPase mechanism does not appear to be involved.
(5) All three organotins inhibited cardiac Na+,K(+)-ATPase, [3H]ouabain binding, K(+)-activated p-nitrophenyl phosphatase (K(+)-PNPPase) and oligomycin-sensitive (OS) and oligomycin-insensitive (OI) Mg(2+)-ATPase in a concentration-dependent manner.
(6) The most important causal factor, well illustrated by pressure studies, was the presence of a dynamic or static deformity leading to local areas of peak pressure on insensitive skin.
(7) However, blood with low HBeAg levels and free of detectable polymerase activity can still be infectious, since the polymerase reaction is rather insensitive compared to the radioimmunological HBeAg determination.
(8) For those synapses that were close to the soma the time constant for decay for the non-NMDA component, which was voltage insensitive, ranged from 4-8 ms. 7.
(9) A sharp decrease in oxygen uptake occurred in Neurospora crassa cells that were transferred from 30 degrees C to 45 degrees C, and the respiration that resumed later at 45 degrees C was cyanide-insensitive.
(10) The response amplitude is maximally sensitive to photons presented over durations of 30-45 min; is very insensitive to shorter light exposures; and is maintained with no evidence of adaptation over longer exposures.
(11) In contrast to the channel closing rate, the opening rate is relatively insensitive to voltage.
(12) By using pH- or Ca(2+)-sensitive dyes and recording at the ion-sensitive and -insensitive (isosbestic) wavelengths, the method can measure both cell volume changes and intracellular ionic activities.
(13) In patients with Cushing's disease or Nelson's syndrome ACTH secretion is insensitive to naloxone, presumably because of an autonomous pituitary adenoma or hypothalamic derangement.
(14) Compared to the controls, the vitamin E deprived animals were relatively insensitive to the effects of scopolamine.
(15) The chemical shifts of the C-2 proton of histidine 48 and of the C-4 proton of histidine 80, histidine residues that are close to one another and to another heterosaccharide side chain, show a similar insensitivity.
(16) Activity was insensitive to oxygen and CO if the substrates had no additional substituents on either ring or contained only electron-donating substituents.
(17) In some cases (approximately equal to 10%) the mechanism of androgen insensitivity could not be identified.
(18) We found the incorporated channels to be insensitive to calcium and octanol, and in most cases to pH in the range of 5-7, suggesting that either these agents do not interact directly with the junctional channels or that the corresponding gating regions are inactivated during the isolation and reconstitution procedures.
(19) The cattle filarial parasite Setaria digitata, a facultative anaerobe which is reported to be cyanide insensitive, lacks cytochromes and presents many unique characters.
(20) V0 estimates derived from the low load portion were positive and relatively insensitive to Ees.
Unfeeling
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate.
(a.) Without kind feelings; cruel; hard-hearted.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has let itself be called a government of unfeeling toffs … The abiding sin of the government is not that some ministers are rich, but that it seems unable to manage its affairs competently."
(2) "You have to be an unfeeling idiot, which we're not, to fail to recognise that the last few years have been tough economic times for people in many places all over the world," he said.
(3) I still remember the conversation, with nostalgia mingled with outrage at the unfeeling nature of capitalism.
(4) Mass education, economic crisis and unfeeling government have long constituted a fertile soil for the cults of authoritarianism and violence.
(5) Trierweiler is forever dashing into bathrooms and collapsing while Hollande is an unfeeling prig who either ignores her or tells her to stop being so melodramatic.
(6) It has let itself be called a government of unfeeling toffs.
(7) It owes an apology to local authorities and to nation as a whole for this unthinking and unfeeling approach to the plight of some of the most vulnerable children in the world.
(8) Government Bond Markets: Unfeeling Psychopaths or Rational Keynesians?
(9) Such is the death of the high street: at one end, it evokes poignant nostalgia – at the other, outrage at the unfeeling nature of capitalism.
(10) In this regard the film’s psychologically dark and patricidal energies are inescapable: when pressed about his mother, Leon replies “let me tell you about my mother”, and blasts the inquiring blade runner in the groin; when Roy demands of Tyrell, “I want more life, fucker”, it’s the first and only swear word in the film, all the stronger for it, and for being addressed to a “father” who has unfeelingly engineered him, and not out of love fathered him at all.
(11) True villains and true psychopaths are, fortunately, rather rare; but, in the right circumstances, becoming unfeelingly obedient and inhuman in this way can become a common condition.
(12) Evidence had revealed the sons as "self-indulgent, substance-abusing, over-pampered" and depicted Adelson as a "harsh, demanding, unfeeling" person, the judge wrote.
(13) Poorly conceived messages that lack cultural, economic or social adaptation to the specified target population, authoritarian, unfeeling pedagogy, and inadequate educational tools lead to uncertain results.
(14) When Gould wrote a lengthy article for the New York Times in 2008 about her compulsion to reveal details of her private life online – she coined the term "oversharing" – more than 1,200 irate comments were left on the Times website condemning her "self-exposure" and calling her everything from a "moronic juvenile" to an "unfeeling, self-absorbed unsavoury clod".
(15) There is the intention to be fair - even to the hated bourgeois parents of the cool and apparently unfeeling wife who is at length brought to heel by a miscarriage.
(16) Britain wasn't quite the 1963 Wyoming depicted in Brokeback Mountain, but it, too, contained its stories of sex thwarted, love irredeemably lost and lives made grey by unfeeling law.
(17) Senior members of the nursing staff were felt to be unfeeling in dealing with the distress of their juniors when laying out deceased patients.
(18) "She has been attacked for being cold or unfeeling but she couldn't show the regime she was suffering.