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resistance medical definition
noun
- The capacity of an organism to defend itself against a disease.
- The capacity of an organism, a tissue, or a cell to withstand the effects of a harmful physical or environmental agent.
- The opposition of a body or substance to current passing through it, resulting in a change of electrical energy into heat or another form of energy.
- In psychoanalysis, a process in which the ego opposes the conscious recall of repressed unpleasant experiences.
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