tolerance ('tolərəns) n.
- The capacity for or the practice
of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others.
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- Leeway for variation
from a standard.
- The permissible
deviation from a specified value of a structural dimension, often
expressed as a percent.
- The capacity to endure hardship
or pain.
- Medicine.
- Physiological
resistance to a poison.
- The capacity to absorb
a drug continuously or in large doses without adverse effect;
diminution in the response to a drug after prolonged use.
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- Acceptance of a tissue
graft or transplant without immunological rejection.
- Unresponsiveness to an
antigen that normally produces an immunological reaction.
- The ability of an organism to
resist or survive infection by a parasitic or pathogenic organism.
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