What's the difference between insolent and pernicious?

Insolent


Definition:

  • (a.) Deviating from that which is customary; novel; strange; unusual.
  • (a.) Haughty and contemptuous or brutal in behavior or language; overbearing; domineering; grossly rude or disrespectful; saucy; as, an insolent master; an insolent servant.
  • (a.) Proceeding from or characterized by insolence; insulting; as, insolent words or behavior.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 50 runners with exertion induced injuries of the lower extremity were provided with appropriate running shoe insoles.
  • (2) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
  • (3) Subjects used these insoles during dance class for 15 weeks.
  • (4) Based on clinical and biomechanical peculiarities of foot, in the institute have been developed insertable orthopaedic devices for mass-produced footwear for mentioned pathology: corrective device with unloading element and curative insole.
  • (5) Young people now may hardly know her, and it is hard today to conjure up the sexiness, the daring, the insolence of some women on screen in the 50s when the Production Code still prevailed.
  • (6) The author discusses the use of accommodative weight-dispersing insoles as an alternative to surgical excision for the treatment of such lesions.
  • (7) Controlled rigidity is provided by the incorporation of a spring steel shank between the sponge insole and the hard wearing plastic sole.
  • (8) I was told it was a contractual requirement, despite there being no mention of either the strike system or the obligation to sell insoles within the contract itself.
  • (9) Therefore running shoe insoles can eliminate peak forces by exactly placing supporting elements.
  • (10) Treat with orthotic insoles or look at upping your shoe size.
  • (11) This paper describes a study of the effectiveness of commercially available shock absorbing insoles when used in four different pairs of shoes during normal walking.
  • (12) Insoles will be available to turn any existing shoes into smartshoes.
  • (13) A new method was developed for the quality testing of shoes, insoles and sport shoes.
  • (14) The purposes of this study were: 1) to compare the impact forces in running using running shoes with conventional insoles to the impact forces using running shoes with four different viscoelastic insoles, 2) to discuss possible effects of the viscoelastic insoles on lower leg kinematics, and 3) to explain the force and kinematic results using a mechanical model.
  • (15) A full account is given of (a) Wilhelm Werneck's therapeutic coagulations (1835): rupturing of cataract by focussed light (sun, phosphorus); (b) Maximilian Adolf Langenbeck's "insolation" of corneal, pupillary and retinal lesions and of traumatic cataract (1859); (c) Vinzenz Czerny's coagulation experiments on the retina of various animals (1867, 1882).
  • (16) Vertical foot bearing pressure was decreased by an average of 18% by wearing shoes padded with a Professional Protective Technology insole and the decrease was greater in patients with higher foot pressure.
  • (17) About a third of dancers fitted with viscoelastic insoles and a tenth of placebo insert wearers found that the insoles made their shoes too tight to be comfortable.
  • (18) Without physical exercise and direct insolation death usually occurred later (on the average of 5-9 days) from acute renal and renal-hepatic failure.
  • (19) The mechanism of the static effects of the wedged insole for the medial osteoarthritic knee was studied in ten women.
  • (20) The most important finding was that an elastic polymer insole with good shock absorbency properties did not prevent stress reactions of bone during a 12-week period of vigorous physical training.

Pernicious


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.
  • (a.) Quick; swift (to burn).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To investigate the possibility that an abnormality of gastric emptying exists in duodenal ulcer and to determine if such an abnormality persists after ulcer healing, scintigraphic gastric emptying measurements were undertaken in 16 duodenal ulcer patients before, during, and after therapy with cimetidine; in 12 patients with pernicious anemia, and in 12 control subjects.
  • (2) Urinary excretion of (60)Co radioactivity in pernicious anemia patients after oral administration of (60)Co-vitamin B(12) bound to freshly prepared (125)I-labeled IF was similar to that obtained with noniodinated intrinsic factor.
  • (3) Antibodies to parietal cells were found in 5 cases and 4 patients with pernicious anemia were detected.
  • (4) Reticulocytes of patients with pernicious anaemia on treatment and with haemolytic anaemia were shown to have higher folate levels than their corresponding mature cells.
  • (5) Immunofluorescence tests on 94 human sera reacting with rat gastric parietal cells revealed that 41 (44%) of the sera contained antibody to a rat parietal cell antigen that was distinct from the pernicious anaemia autoantigen.
  • (6) In pernicious anaemia the amount of enzyme is reduced and on this hypothesis the regulatory function impaired.
  • (7) Six patients without nervous system involvement had normal EEGs, 10 patients with spinal cord or peripheral nervous system involvement had normal or minimally abnormal EEGs, 17 of 19 patients with evidence of mental dysfunction had abnormal EEGs with the most consistent finding being an excess of theta slowing, and 19 patients with pernicious anemia and other neurologic diseases showed EEG findings reflecting the complicating disease process.
  • (8) This article details the pernicious odontostomatological effects provoked by antitumorous and immunosuppressive medication.
  • (9) This week, the resilience of Italy’s most pernicious problem – the mafia – was exposed once again when it was announced that Corleone’s town council was being dissolved by the order of Rome because it had been infiltrated by organised crime.
  • (10) Thus the Type A pattern of gastritis (autoimmune) seen in patients with pernicious anaemia is only rarely associated with Campylobacter like organisms.
  • (11) Thus, the processing of progastrin adjacent to the active site of gastrin is more restrictively controlled than N-terminal processing during G-cell hypersecretion associated with pernicious anemia.
  • (12) The early improvement in marrow morphology in patients with pernicious anaemia was greater with 1000 mug than with 5 mug doses of cyanocobalamin.
  • (13) They were found to have pernicious anemia (PA) and normal adrenal functions.
  • (14) The EEG was also a good indicator for detecting and confirming other intracranial disease processes unrelated to pernicious anemia.
  • (15) The endocrine tumours corresponded to the gastric carcinoids found in patients with long-lasting hypergastrinaemia due to pernicious anaemia or with a gastrinoma as part of the MEN I syndrome.
  • (16) Two vitiligo patients were hypergastrinaemic suggesting latent pernicious anaemia.
  • (17) 27 patients with pernicious anaemia, followed for a long period, were consecutively treated with three different vitamin B12 preparations, while during intervening period no therapy was given until signs of B12 deficiency developed.
  • (18) Sixteen control subjects, 13 patients with pernicious anaemia, and four who had had total gastrectomy were studied.
  • (19) And so while it’s particularly pernicious that some parents pay for months, sometimes years, of tutoring to get their child through an exam that they might well otherwise fail, I know it’s because they are desperate to secure for their child any extra benefit going in a country that is becoming ever more unequal.
  • (20) This policy, which prevents many travellers and overseas residents from benefitting from one of the most effective prophylactic treatments on the market today, thereby indirectly causing a number of pernicious cases of malaria, is based on the unfounded, unproved premise that wide use of this drug would foster the development of méfloquine-resistance or on side-effects, which are in fact rarely of any consequence and always curable.