disease resistance
11resistance — n. 1) to offer, put up resistance 2) to break down, crush, overcome, overpower, put down, smash, wear down resistance 3) determined, fierce, stiff, strong, stubborn, valiant resistance 4) armed; non violent, passive; spotty; weak resistance 5)… …
12Resistance — Opposition to something, or the ability to withstand it. For example, some forms of staphylococcus are resistant to treatment with antibiotics. * * * 1. A force exerted in opposition to an active force. 2. The opposition in a conductor to the… …
13disease — In a strict or literal sense, any departure from a perfect norm of health, even including some ailments which are more or less trivial. Mutual Life Ins. Co. v Simpson, 88 Tex 333. Better understood in a legal sense as an ailment or disorder of an …
14resistance — [[t]rɪzɪ̱stəns[/t]] ♦♦♦ resistances 1) N UNCOUNT: oft N to n Resistance to something such as a change or a new idea is a refusal to accept it. The US wants big cuts in European agricultural export subsidies, but this is meeting resistance. 2) N… …
15resistance — Synonyms and related words: Charley, VC, Vietcong, acquired immunity, active immunity, alienation, antagonism, antibody, antigen, antipathy, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, artificial immunity, autism, autistic thinking, averseness, aversion,… …
16resistance — re|sis|tance [ rı zıstəns ] noun *** ▸ 1 not being affected ▸ 2 refusal of something new ▸ 3 opposition to someone/something ▸ 4 force slowing something moving ▸ 5 stopping electric flow ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) singular or uncount resistance to the… …
17resistance */*/*/ — UK [rɪˈzɪst(ə)ns] / US [rɪˈzɪstəns] noun 1) a) [singular/uncountable] the ability not to be affected or harmed by something, especially a disease or a drug resistance to: Vitamin C helps build resistance to infection. Tumour cells can develop a… …
18resistance — noun 1) resistance to change Syn: opposition to, hostility to, refusal to accept 2) a spirited resistance Syn: opposition, fight, stand, struggle 3) the body s resistance to disease …
19Disease, Fahr — This syndrome described in 1930 by T. Fahr is a genetic (inherited) neurological disorder characterized by abnormal deposits of calcium in certain of areas of the brain (including the basal ganglia and the cerebral cortex). Symptoms may include… …
20resistance — noun 1) resistance to change Syn: opposition, hostility 2) a spirited resistance Syn: struggle, fight, battle, stand, opposition, defiance 3) the body s resistance to disease …
