(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.
Unremitting
Definition:
(a.) Not remitting; incessant; continued; persevering; as, unremitting exertions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Five of the children presented an "aplastic crisis," for example, a sudden decrease in hemoglobin concentration associated with absence of reticulocytes in the peripheral blood, and four were admitted with unremitting severe pain because of a "vaso-occlusive crisis."
(2) Business rates: pressure grows for total rethink on controversial tax Read more Meanwhile the downwards press on aggregate council funding is unremitting.
(3) The unremitting assault on Aleppo by Russian and Syrian forces over recent days is certainly testament to that.” In a week of what residents have described as the worst airstrike campaign since the start of the civil war in Syria , forces loyal to Assad have begun the early stages of a ground offensive aimed at reclaiming eastern Aleppo, which has been under opposition control since 2012.
(4) Although the unremitting deterioration in mental retardation and hemiparesis was not effectively prevented by the surgery possibly because the timing of surgery was delayed in one case, the surgery not only stopped the frequent medically-intractable seizures, but also dramatically prevented the psychomotor deterioration in the other case.
(5) In a day of unremitting gloom, and yet more market turbulence, the Greek government also stood on the precipice of collapse, risking an uncontrolled default, as the government of George Papandreou faced a late-night confidence vote in parliament.
(6) "The background climate in this county has become … unremittingly hostile.
(7) Over-all, 80% of the patients experienced at least 1 complication, chief among which were pyocystis (67%), hemorrhage (23%), severe pain (13%), and unremitting feelings of incomplete emptying and spasm (17%).
(8) Epidermodysplasia verruciformis (EV) is a rare disease characterized by the early onset and unremitting progression of wart-like lesions and frequent association of cutaneous carcinomas.
(9) Across the Pacific, the subtle, unremitting first impacts of the climate crisis are already strangling lives.
(10) Gove and his team are more bullish, and Allen describes an unremittingly positive dossier of evidence that the coalition recently published as "deliberately selective".
(11) In an effort to minimize the nutritional complications that follow resection of the pancreas for severe chronic pancreatitis, the authors have performed a duodenum-preserving total pancreatectomy in eight patients for severe unremitting pain requiring large doses of opiate analgesia.
(12) Personal experience, first heavily employed by male writers, is now a major part of the depoliticised end of women's writing and occurs on an unremitting basis as the "me" in "media" colonises ever larger continents of journalism.
(13) In the event of advancing, unremitting infection involving the foot, ankle guillotine amputation may be a life-saving technique.
(14) The potential for the sudden inadvertent application of a high, unremitting pressure support breath or continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) clearly exists with some ventilators and is illustrated in two cases.
(15) Pernicious anaemia patients have unremitting hypergastrinaemia throughout the 24 hours.
(16) These data show that ongoing neurologic dysfunction can be induced in the Lewis rat by a GP-BP specific T-lymphocyte line; they suggest that unremitting clinical signs can persist in the absence both of inflammatory lesions in the CNS and of pronounced immunologic responsiveness to the encephalitogenic determinant of GP-BP.
(17) After 90 minutes of unremitting toil, perspiration and scant regard for loftier reputations, blame was starting to be apportioned.
(18) That of course is not how it looks in Pyongyang, which sees broken promises and unremitting hostility.
(19) The nastiest, hardest and most disturbing scenes you'll see this year are probably those that open Zero Dark Thirty , Kathryn Bigelow's dogged and unremittingly tense account of the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden.
(20) However, this increase did not equal control value, and moreover both remitted and unremitted patients presented a similar change in their alpha 2-adrenoceptor-mediated adenylate cyclase inhibition.