Tuesday, May 11, 2010

What's the meaning of TOLERANCE?


Well, Tolerance is..

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

2.
-Leeway for variation from a standard.
- The permissible deviation from a specified value of a structural dimension, often expressed as a percent.
3.The capacity to endure hardship or pain.
4.Medicine.
-Physiological resistance to a toxin.
-Diminution in the physiological response to a drug that occurs after continued use, necessitating larger doses to produce a given response.
5. Acceptance of a tissue graft or transplant without immunological rejection.
Unresponsiveness to an antigen that normally produces an immunological reaction.
6.The ability of an organism to resist or survive infection by a parasitic or pathogenic organism.
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