(a.) Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness.
(a.) Not yielding; not easily subdued or removed; as, obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patient was a forty-five-year-old female who had been troubled by obstinate Raynaud's phenomenon for ten years before the definite diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension was made.
(2) The whole proves his introversion, ambivalence, hypersensitivity, obstinancy, anxieties, behavioral anomalies, a life rich in fantasies and his underestimation of his own literary work.
(3) Soon my piano lessons had turned into me, an obstinate 11-year old, demanding that my neighbour teach me ever-more intricate DOS commands.
(4) Peritoneal pseudomyxoma has several main features: it is insidious, recurrent, obstinate and severe.
(5) Adamant avoidance of division of primary clinical responsibility among cooperating specialists and clinician obstinancy when dealing with third parties can help prevent suicides.
(6) When an obstinate irritable colon is present, a diagnostics of neuroses is indicated.
(7) Twenty-two cases 23 eyes with obstinate stromal keratitis treated by combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicines are reported in this paper.
(8) Scores of people, including comedian Mark Thomas and wilderness hiker Cameron McNeish, have become joint owners of an acre of land previously owned by Michael Forbes, the quarryman and salmon netsman who has become Trump's most famous and obstinate opponent.
(9) The results show the possibility that recombinant human interleukin-1 alpha could be of help for treating obstinate infections not successfully treated with antimicrobial agents alone.
(10) "[The officials] have become obstinate – they are seeking just different ways to mistreat my mother and us as her children," he said.
(11) During the first weeks of the rheumatoid arthritis the following symptoms are found: articular syndromes, more frequently in form of obstinate polyarthralgias, mono-oligoarthritis, accompanied by morning rigidity and accelerated BSR as well as impairment of the general condition.
(12) In a study for the recognition of the urodynamics of the detrusor after administration of the anticholinergic drug Mictonorm 14 patients with obstinate urge symptoms were examined.
(13) But these factors become important when patients, particularly debilitated patients, are infected acutely or chronically with some of the more obstinate bacteria.
(14) Back by the obstinately uninflated elephant, Simon Vose clambered in to his van and set off on another callout for his house maintenance business.
(15) These results show the possibility that KW-2228 could be of use in treating obstinate infections not successfully treated with an antimicrobial agent alone.
(16) Instead, the focus has been on the objective question: could an obstinate and prejudiced person have honestly based the comment made by the defendant on the facts on which the defendant commented?
(17) But with a very strong El Niño driving record global temperatures and a huge patch of hot water, known as “the Blob” , hanging obstinately in the north-western Pacific, things look far worse again for 2016.
(18) Such querulous, opinionated persons are obstinate "bellyachers" who "stick to their guns" and imaginary legal positions to the extent of being a general nuisance.
(19) Three years later, he provoked intense controversy with the publication of Haig: The Educated Soldier, which was sharply at odds with the popular view that the first world war had been the supreme example of "mud, blood and futility", with British generals depicted as callous, obstinate and incompetent.
(20) The knowledge of these diseases is a prerequisite to the causal and lasting treatment of patients affected by the obstinate and occasionally even painful symptom of the burning tongue.
Unrelenting
Definition:
(a.) Not relenting; unyielding; rigid; hard; stern; cruel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seventeen patients (9 sibling and 8 unrelated donors) received conditioning with hyperfractionated total body irradiation (TBI), thiotepa, and cyclophosphamide (Cy).
(2) Psychophysiological responses were generally unrelated to age and education.
(3) Besides the 15 cases reported in 1984, 6 additional cases of anti-vWF alloantibodies were reported, i.e., one from Spain (a relative of a previously reported case), two from Venezuela (brother and sister) and three from North Carolina (unrelated patients).
(4) Two patients subsequently died as a result of pneumonia and cerebral infarction, respectively; both conditions were unrelated to the hemorrhage.
(5) The total glutathione peroxidase activity was unrelated to studied variables of bull semen.
(6) Differences between natural and elicited attack appeared to be related to the range of completenes of elicited attack, the greater intensity of elicited attack, and the presence of unrelated responses induced by hypothalamic stimulation.
(7) Posttransplant lymphocytes derived from CML-NR patients were stimulated in vitro with lymphocytes from unrelated healthy blood donors, who were selected for the presence or absence of kidney donor-specific HLA antigens.
(8) This deposition is unrelated to the deposition of other immunoreactants (IgG, IgM or C3).
(9) In contrast, the number of distressful childhood experiences reported was generally unrelated to empathy scores.
(10) Three patients recovered from their operations, and the other two, both with endocarditis, died postoperatively from causes unrelated to splenic abscess and splenectomy.
(11) Antibodies were almost never present in the absence of conjunctival follicles, but their titres were unrelated to the degree of follicular hyperplasia; there was no obvious relationship between the serological findings and corneal lesions.
(12) Polymorphism of PGM1 and PGM3 types was investigated in placental extracts from 127 unrelated Japanese parturients living in Yamanashi Prefecture.
(13) Seemingly unrelated conditions, such as atherosclerosis, bacterial endocarditis, and trauma, can all produce similar radiographic appearance of aneurysmal dilatation within the kidney, albeit through differing mechanisms.
(14) PES scores were inversely related to reporting symptoms and unrelated to measures of response style.
(15) In men, the presence of antisperm antibodies in sera was unrelated to fertility.
(16) When epinephrine is infused at different rates into exercising rats, liver cAMP appears to be unrelated to plasma epinephrine.
(17) In this longitudinal study, involving twice monthly samples from each participant and carried out in two phases lasting at least six and three months respectively, we have confirmed that fluctuations in T8+ cells occur in patients with MS and also found a significant reduction in this lymphocyte subpopulation in patients' spouses but not their siblings, compared with unrelated controls.
(18) Gradients were unrelated to symptoms or to the duration of the valve in situ (3 weeks to 20 years).
(19) The superiority of the high responder vs. the low responder line was generally observed, confirming that the genes accumulated through selective breeding can modify the responsiveness to unrelated antigens including TI antigens.
(20) The effect of two structurally unrelated aldose reductase inhibitors, sorbinil and ponalrestat, on glomerular prostaglandin production and urinary albumin excretion was investigated in rats with diabetes induced by streptozotocin.