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Resistance

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-024072

1. For plants and animals, the ability to withstand poor environmental conditions or attacks by chemicals or disease. May be inborn or acquired.

2. In a body subject to infection, the sum total of body mechanisms that interpose barriers to the invasion or multiplication of infectious agents or to damage by their toxic products.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-024072
FieldEnvironment
SubjectGeneral environmental
ReferencesTerms of Environment; APHA 1995
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-024072",
  "term": "Resistance",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. For plants and animals, the ability to withstand poor environmental conditions or attacks by chemicals or disease. May be inborn or acquired.\n\n2. In a body subject to infection, the sum total of body mechanisms that interpose barriers to the invasion or multiplication of infectious agents or to damage by their toxic products.",
  "subject": "General environmental",
  "references": [
    "Terms of Environment",
    "APHA 1995"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/resistance/"
}

Record 24,072 of 30,736 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.