For Tolerance we have terms and definitions in 21 topics. The topics are Addiction, Alcoholism, Botanical, Construction, Drug Rehabilitation, Drugs, Hippy, Horse Health, Immunization, Iraq War, Medical, Metal, Microbiology, Paper, Photography, Psychoactives, Quitting Smoking, Science, Steel, Tires and Wire.

Tolerance (Addiction)

Condition in which a person must keep increasing the dosage of a drug to maintain the same effect. Tolerance develops with the barbiturates, amphetamines and related compounds, and opiates.

Tolerance (Alcoholism)

A condition in which higher doses of a drug are required to produce the same effect as during initial use; often leads to physical dependence.

Tolerance (Botanical)

The ability of plants to endure a specified pest, pathogen, environmental pressure or chemical stress. A tolerant variety will sustain less damage than a susceptible variety when grown under the same conditions.

Tolerance (Construction)

The acceptable variance of dimensions from s standard size.

Tolerance (Drug Rehabilitation)

A state in which the body’s tissue cells adjust to the presence of a drug. The term “tolerance” refers to a state in which the body becomes used to the presence of a drug in given amounts and eventually fails to respond to ordinarily effective dosages. Therefore, larger doses are necessary to produce desired effects.

Tolerance (Drugs)

A condition in which higher doses of a drug are required to produce the same effect as during initial use; often leads to physical dependence.

Tolerance (Hippy)

What results from prolonged recent use of drugs requiring one to use more to get the same effect. "I've built up a tolerance to LSD, now I have to take at least 500 mikes to get off."

Tolerance (Horse Health)

The normal state whereby the immune system remains nonreactive or "tolerant" to the body's own cells.

Tolerance (Immunization)

Diminished or absent capacity to make a specific response to an antigen, usually produced as a result of contact with that antigen under nonimmunizing conditions.

Tolerance (Iraq War)

The capacity for or the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others.

Tolerance (Medical)

Decreased sensitivity of the body to a certain drug, usually either because the liver becomes more efficient at breaking down the drug or the body's tissues become less sensitive to it; increased tolerance creates a need for a higher dose of the drug in order to have the same effects

Tolerance (Metal)

Permissible variation.

Tolerance (Microbiology)

A form of resistance to antimicrobial drugs; of uncertain clinical importance. See tolerant.

Tolerance (Paper)

Permissible degree of variation from a pre-set standard.

Tolerance (Photography)

In Photoshop tolerance describes a certain distance between adjacent pixels. Tolerance is used with the Wand Tool for making selections and the Paint Bucket Tool for painting. The tolerance values can be adjusted for these tools. For example, when the Wand Tool is set to a tolerance of one, only a small selection will be created because the distance between the selected pixel value and adjacent pixels is only one.

Tolerance (Psychoactives)

1. In pharmacology, the decrease or loss of response to a drug, due to recent or prolonged exposure to it.
2. the need for increasing doses of a drug over time to maintain the same effect. Tolerance is a common characteristic of dependence on drugs. It is provoked by some drugs more than others, especially by stimulants and depressants of the central nervous system.

Tolerance (Quitting Smoking)

A condition in which higher doses of a drug are required to produce the same effect as during initial use; often leads to physical dependence.

Tolerance (Science)

The ability to withstand certain amounts of a drug

Tolerance (Steel)

A term that is used to quantify the allowable deviation from a dimension. For example, tolerances exist for the sheet thickness, width, flatness, camber, etc.

Tolerance (Tires)

An allowable variation in dimension.

Tolerance (Wire)

A specified allowance for error from a standard or given dimension, weight or property.

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