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• resistance — 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,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• resistance — I. noun Date: 14th century 1. a. an act or instance of resisting ; opposition b. a means of resisting 2. the power or capacity to resist: as a. the inherent ability of an organism to resist harmful influences (as disease, toxic agents, or… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Resistance, Rebellion, and Death — Infobox Book name = Resistance, Rebellion, and Death author = Albert Camus publisher = Random House release date = 1960 isbn = Resistance, Rebellion, and Death is a 1960 collection of essays written by Albert Camus and selected by the author… …   Wikipedia

• Resistance — 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… …   Medical dictionary

• Deborah Chung's "apparent negative resistance" — History In July 1998, Deborah Chung and Shoukai Wang of the University of Buffalo presented the results of an experiment that showed an apparent absolute negative resistance in bare carbon fibers held together by pressure.[1] In the experiment,… …   Wikipedia

• Defence mechanism — For the biological concept, see Antipredator adaptation. Part of a series of articles on Psychoanalysis …   Wikipedia

• Myogenic mechanism — The myogenic mechanism is how arteries and arterioles react to an increase or decrease of blood pressure to keep the blood flow within the blood vessel constant. The smooth muscle of the blood vessels reacts to the stretching of the muscle by… …   Wikipedia

• Antibiotic resistance — is a type of drug resistance where a microorganism is able to survive exposure to an antibiotic. While a spontaneous or induced genetic mutation in bacteria may confer resistance to antimicrobial drugs, genes that confer resistance can be… …   Wikipedia

• Insulin resistance — Infobox Disease Name = Insulin resistance Caption = DiseasesDB = ICD10 = ICD9 = ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = med eMedicineTopic = 1173 MeshName = Insulin+Resistance MeshNumber = C18.452.394.968.500 Insulin resistance is the… …   Wikipedia

• Electrical resistance — is a ratio of the degree to which an object opposes an electric current through it, measured in Ohms. Its reciprocal quantity is electrical conductance measured in Siemens. Assuming a uniform current density, an object s electrical resistance is… …   Wikipedia

• Psychological resistance — is the phenomenon often encountered in clinical practice in which patients either directly or indirectly oppose changing their behavior or refuse to discuss, remember, or think about presumably clinically relevant experiences.Psychoanalytic… …   Wikipedia