Definición de refractory en inglés:


Saltos de línea: re|frac¦tory
Pronunciación: /rɪˈfrakt(ə)ri


1Stubborn or unmanageable: his refractory pony
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  • Capulet's attitude to his refractory daughter is precisely that of my Muslim patients' fathers.
2Resistant to a process or stimulus: some granules are refractory to secretory stimuli it will treat ores considered refractory to normal flotation methods
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2.1 Medicine (Of a person, illness, or diseased tissue) not yielding to treatment: healing of previously refractory ulcers
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2.2 Medicine, rare (Of a person or animal) resistant to infection: turkeys can be infected when young but are refractory as adults
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2.3 technical (Of a substance) resistant to heat; hard to melt or fuse: refractory materials found in lunar samples
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  • Also under investigation as possible container materials are certain types of refractory ceramics.

sustantivo (plural refractories)

technical Volver al principio  
A substance that is resistant to heat.
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early 17th century: alteration of obsolete refractary, from Latin refractarius 'stubborn' (see also refract).



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  • In addition to disease refractoriness, rare instances of disease progression from chronic phase to blast crisis during imatinib therapy have recently been anecdotally reported.
  • But medications can never be relational, much as patients sometimes attempt to have relationships with us through them, symbolically mediated by ‘side effects,’ paradoxical responses and refractoriness to treatment.
  • Some have suggested that they could be used to spread desirable genes, such as refractoriness to Plasmodium infection, through target populations of Anopheles gambiae, thereby disabling the mosquito's ability to transmit malaria.

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