resistance 1. The ability of a plant to overcome, retard, suppress, or prevent infection or colonization by a pathogen, parasite, or adverse abiotic factor. 2. The ability of insects, fungi, weeds, or other pests to survive normally lethal doses of an insecticide, fungicide, herbicide, or other pesticide; biological [rɪ'zɪstəns] adj.

environ.

resistencia

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resistance [rɪ'zɪstəns] abbr.

When a bacteria, virus, or other microorganism mutates changes form and becomes insensitive to resistant to a drug that was previously effective. Drug resistance can be a cause of HIV treatment failure. see also acquired resistance, drug-susceptible, transmitted resistance, treatment failure

mil., abbr.

resis

resistance to

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resistance
agric.	capacidad de resistencia
el.	resistencia en corriente alterna
environ.	resistencia
med.	resistencia a los antimicrobianos; resistencia bacteriana; resistencia microbiana
nat.sc.	habituamiento; resistencia
pack.	resistencia al desgarro; resistencia a la propagación de la rotura


To:
inet.	a
to
gen.	a; ante
forestr.	encolar
math.	para


current
gen.	actual; contemporáneo; en curso
auto.	corriente
comp., MS	al corriente
ed.	vigente; actual
el.	corriente
law	actualmente
meteorol.	flujo