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LH (medicine)


lh
<chemical> A small glycoprotein hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary. Lh plays an important role in controlling ovulation and in controlling secretion of hormones by the ovaries and testes.

Chemical name: Luteinizing hormone


tolerance(1) (iou)



tolerance noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French tolerance from Latin tolerantia, from tolerant- pres. ppl stem of tolerare TOLERATE: see -ANCE.]
The action or practice of bearing pain or hardship; the power or ability to endure something. Now rare exc. as passing into Other senses. LME.
Bacon Diogenes, one terrible frosty Morning,..stood Naked shaking to shew his Tolerance.
b. Physiology. The power (constitutional or acquired) of enduring large doses of active drugs, or of resisting the action of a toxin etc.; diminution in the response to a drug after continued use. Also foll. by to. L19.
c. Biology. The ability of an organism to withstand some particular environmental condition; spec. in Forestry, the capacity of a tree to endure shade. Foll. by to. L19.
d. Biology. The ability of an organism to survive or flourish despite infection or infestation. E20.
e. Immunology. The ability to accept a graft, transplant, antigen, etc., without an immunological reaction. M20.
The action of allowing something or granting permission. obsolete exc. Scot. LME.
The disposition or ability to accept without protest or adopt a liberal attitude towards the opinions or acts of others; toleration; forbearance. Cf. earlier TOLERANCY. M18.
Y. Menuhin To meet a tolerance that accepted the odd man out..was a heartwarming experience. P. Bailey My grandmother had no tolerance of illness; regarded it, indeed, as a vice, an indulgence.
a. = REMEDY noun 3. M19.
b. Engineering etc. An allowable amount of variation in the dimensions of a machine or part. More widely, the allowable amount of variation in any specified quantity. E20.
Comb.: tolerance dose Medicine a dose, esp. of radiation, believed to be received or taken without harm; tolerance level the level (of noise etc.) that can be tolerated or is acceptable; spec. in Medicine = tolerance dose above; tolerance limit a limit laid down for the permitted variation of a parameter of a product.