resistance
54
4.1
- noun
- /rɪˈzɪstəns/
- Specialized
:
resistencia
- Her research interests include influenza viruses and mechanisms of resistance to antiviral agents.
- drug resistance
- antimicrobial resistance
- antibiotic resistance
These patients usually have insulin resistance, which make gain weight.
- These patients usually have insulin resistance, which make gain weight.
- It's not, it's not certain that these resistance mutants will take over, right.
- This resistance gene confers resistance to a drug called colistin.
- So, Doctor Sam, how do you fix insulin resistance naturally?
- This idea of insulin resistance is killing our world.
Examples
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Some bacteria produce an enzyme called NDM-1, which gives them resistance to virtually all available antibiotics.
Academic text (2012) -
He's developed some sort of resistance to the procedure.
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I had a high level of resistance when I was young.
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I have to build up my resistance like everybody else.
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Your resistance is still pretty good.
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So take those two things off the table in terms of its resistance to vaccines.
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Now, you can acquire resistance essentially in two ways.
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These chemicals cause disease and antibiotic resistance in humans.
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For bacteria, the development of resistance to antibiotics is a natural evolutionary process in terms of survival.
Academic text (2015) -
Many people improve their immune resistance by getting vaccinated regularly.
Synonyms
101
3.5
Protection from disease because the body fights the germ
43
4.8
Ability to survive in bad conditions like heat or drought
Antonyms
Compounds
3
5.6
A way to act against authority without violence, for example by refusing to cooperate
2
3.9
A way of opposing a government without using violence, for example by refusing to obey laws
- Specialized
1
3.9
The amount a material stops or slows the flow of electric current
A Palestinian political and armed group called Hamas that fights Israel and seeks to replace it with an Islamic state
A Spanish armed group that tried to overthrow the government to make a communist state
- Specialized
A device that measures very high temperatures by watching how electricity in a hot wire changes
- Specialized
A tool that measures temperature by how easily electricity passes through a metal wire
- Specialized
A measure of how much a part in an electrical circuit stops the flow of electricity, for example the ohm
- Specialized
A machine that heats things by passing electricity through a metal wire
- Specialized
How much a material stops electric current while voltage and current change together
How Resistant
- Specialized
101
3.5
- Specialized
54
4.1
- Specialized
43
4.8
11
7.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Resistance comes from Latin re- 'back' and sistere 'to stand', so to have resistance to a disease is to 'stand against' germs or drugs and stop them from working.