(n.) Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.
(n.) The quality of being intolerant; refusal to allow to others the enjoyment of their opinions, chosen modes of worship, and the like; want of patience and forbearance; illiberality; bigotry; as, intolerance shown toward a religious sect.
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.
Rancour
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Trump’s nomination has been described as a hostile takeover and there was hostility aplenty: a festival of bigotry, rancour and racially charged hatred.
(2) This sporting occasion did begin in remembrance of one of the most remarkable campaigns for justice, against a scandalous police cover-up, but it ended largely in rancour, and complaints about a referee, Mark Halsey.
(3) "What I would say from last night is there's no bad blood, there's no rancour, no bitterness."
(4) As the meeting degenerated into rancour, Greek banks stood on the brink of collapse after a flood of cash withdrawals on Thursday, raising the prospect of capital controls and temporary bank closures.
(5) The next round of intermediate negotiations, due to start in Bonn on 31 May , look set to take place in a poisonous atmosphere of bitterness and rancour.
(6) It comes amid rising rancour between rich and poor countries.
(7) It's necessary to outline the succession of injustices that Watson has suffered, the abominable luck and ongoing battles, to begin to appreciate his near total absence of rancour.
(8) Meanwhile, Scottish Labour is eating itself, the former leader departing amid rancour .
(9) After much online rancour, Pelevina agreed she would not stand in the elections, but wrote on Facebook that Yashin was a “simple liar, petty and vengeful, and simply an indecent person”.
(10) She says this entirely equably, without boast or rancour.
(11) Republican rancour over the budget deal boiled over again on Thursday, after Senator John McCain attacked a last-minute amendment to spend $2.8bn on infrastructure work on the Ohio river, which connects the political backyards of party leaders in the Senate and the House.
(12) After a year in office, Rouhani has evidently put an end to Ahmadinejad’s years of rancour.
(13) Less than four months later, amid rancour, rifts and reams of gleeful commentary in the mainstream Italian media, the euphoria of that stunning breakthrough appears largely to have evaporated.
(14) is as charming a slab of rancour as one could wish for, simultaneously puffed-up with righteous anger and utterly crushed by disappointment.
(15) Chelsea had done nothing wrong, but the rancour was inevitable.
(16) The talks on Greece have left a legacy of rancour not only between Greece and the union but also between different groupings within the EU, straining the Franco-German relationship in particular.
(17) Chalmers, the moderator of the General Assembly, said he had "repelled by the name-calling and rancour we have seen in recent weeks.
(18) It's a moment without rancour, without bitterness: a great sigh of relief at the inevitable acknowledgement of the obvious… it's time to go our separate ways.
(19) The rancour that has run through the summit between developed and developing nations broke out again when the Africa group of countries and others accused the UN chair of the conference of trying to "kill" the Kyoto protocol.
(20) In a domestic debate that mirrors the rancour and resentments that have broken out across the EU as leaders bicker endlessly over who should pay to rescue the euro, richer German states now complain about constantly having to help out poorer states via the national federal subsidies system.