(a.) Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Residual technical problems remain which should not prove insurmountable.
(2) It presents a challenge, but not an insurmountable one.
(3) They serve only to create insurmountable barriers that effectively eliminate medical abortions as an available option."
(4) The following myths are discussed and refuted: (1) There is an insurmountable community-research chasm.
(5) This speech was designed to allow progressives once again to see Barack Obama as they have always wanted to see him, his policies notwithstanding: as a deeply thoughtful, moral, complex leader who is doing his level best, despite often insurmountable obstacles, to bring about all those Good Things that progressives thought they would be getting when they empowered him.
(6) loxtidine and lamitidine, are insurmountable H2-receptor blockers.
(7) The challenges sometimes feel insurmountable, Tousif says.
(8) David Cameron is preparing to bow to insurmountable political opposition by putting the coalition's flagship NHS reform bill on hold beyond Easter, and possibly for as long as three months.
(9) In the pithed rat, EXP3892 showed selective and insurmountable AII antagonism.
(10) Recent data suggest that hyperacute rejection may not represent an insurmountable barrier to discordant xenotransplantation.
(11) The scale and depth of the climate challenge may seem insurmountable, and politicians will tell us with no irony, that they cannot sell, and no one will buy the policy ticket necessary for our own environmental rescue.
(12) The study of agonist-antagonist interactions may be aided by the use of these procedures, as descriptions of insurmountable antagonism may be complemented by the identification of stimulus conditions associated with the antagonist, as well as those conditions that represent novel stimulus states.
(13) The authors conclude that though the process to primary mental health care will be a long one, the problems are unlikely to be insurmountable.
(14) No insurmountable problems in the development of the artificial heart have been identified.
(15) The reliance on scientific evidence appears to present almost insurmountable problems of proof of causation to the plaintiff.
(16) That problem might not have been insurmountable had it presented itself at another point in our history.
(17) In one case, a further increase in buspirone dose resulted in an insurmountable antagonism, i.e., increasing APO dose still resulted in primarily saline-appropriate responding.
(18) Taken together, these results show that GRI17289 is a potent, specific, selective and insurmountable antagonist at angiotensin AT, receptors.
(19) But if Pope Francis has his way, a deal to bridge what many believe is an insurmountable divide between the Roman Catholic church and the communist Chinese government could be announced within the next 30 days.
(20) Shareable cities These may seem like fairly insurmountable obstacles.
Unsurmountable
Definition:
(a.) Insurmountable.
Example Sentences:
(1) The increase in carcinoid tumour incidence observed in rats and mice after loxtidine treatment was probably related to the prolonged achlorhydria produced by this potent unsurmountable histamine H2-receptor antagonist.
(2) Flurbiprofen antagonized the response to exogenously applied ATP in an unsurmountable manner, but not that to carbachol.
(3) The very late occurrence of gastric carcinoids in a life-span carcinogenicity study with loxtidine in the rat might have resulted from continuous achlorhydria induced by this long-acting unsurmountable histamine H2-antagonist.
(4) Even though LSD behaved as a partial agonist and BOL as a pure antagonist, both drugs blocked the effect of serotonin in an unsurmountable manner, i.e., increasing concentrations of serotonin could not overcome the blocking effect of LSD or BOL.
(5) However, at concentrations below those required to produce hyperpolarization, both compounds acted as unsurmountable antagonists of 5-HT-induced hyperpolarization.
(6) The results suggest that the unsurmountable blockade of NMDA responses by DNQX and CNQX reflects an antagonist effect mediated at the allosterically linked strychnine-insensitive glycine receptor.
(7) However, in contrast to the situation described with methysergide, ritanserin and LY 53857 in several 5-HT2 receptor models, none of these antagonists acted in a non-competitive or unsurmountable fashion at 5-HT1C receptors.
(8) These results support the hypothesis that the late formation of gastric carcinoids in rats receiving loxtidine is a consequence of persistent achlorhydria caused by unsurmountable blockade of parietal cell H2-receptors.
(9) Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and its structural analogue 2-bromo-lysergic acid diethylamide (BOL) act as unsurmountable antagonists of serotonin-elicited contractions in smooth muscle preparations.
(10) Metergoline and six other 5-HT antagonists acted as potent unsurmountable antagonists, only (-)-propranolol acted competitively (pA2 = 6.5).
(11) With type-II diabetics it is an unsurmounted feeling of anxiety and guilt which makes patients break off their interhuman relations and leads, in most cases, to obesity and, eventually, to the manifestation of the disease.
(12) At relatively high concentrations of the drug a slowing of aggregation and shape change to U-44619 was seen and an unsurmountable antagonism became apparent.
(13) Apart from quantitative differences, famotidine differed from the other compounds, since it caused a competitive antagonism only at low concentrations and an unsurmountable antagonism at higher concentrations.
(14) However, in human platelet-rich plasma (PRP) they produce an unsurmountable block of aggregation induced by a wide range of agents (ADP, platelet-activating factor, thrombin); this inhibitory profile is typical of that seen with either prostaglandin I2 (PGI2) or PGD2.
(15) The antagonism of responses to NMDA was unsurmountable and mediated via an antagonist action at the allosterically-linked strychnine-insensitive glycine site.
(16) Ranitidine and loxtidine had qualitatively different inhibitory effects on acid secretion, ranitidine being a competitive antagonist of histamine even at high concentrations, whereas the effect of loxtidine on both preparations was unsurmountable at relatively low concentrations.
(17) The effect of histamine was competitively antagonized by ranitidine (pA2 = 6.78) in normal solutions; conversely in 1.2 mM Ca2+, the antagonism by ranitidine became unsurmountable.
(18) Methysergide antagonized unsurmountably 5-HT-induced contractions by reducing maximum effects to 25% (coronary artery: pIC50, 9.8) and 60% (tail artery: pIC80, 9.0).
(19) The most parsimonious interpretation of these results is that unsurmountable antagonism reflects prolonged occupancy of the receptor by slowly reversible antagonists.
(20) Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) antagonizes the actions of 5-HT in a manner which progresses from surmountability to unsurmountability of the blockade depending on the concentration of LSD.