refractoriness
Unwillingness to yield
Refractoriness is the quality of being stubborn, unmanageable, or resistant to treatment.
In medicine, it describes a condition that doesn't respond to standard therapies: The refractoriness of her infection worried the doctors.
In physiology, it refers to the brief period after a nerve or muscle fires when it cannot respond to another stimulus.
The word implies something that resists efforts to change or control it.
Refusal to yield
- intransigenceRefusal to compromise
- obduracyStubborn refusal to yield
- recalcitranceStubborn refusal to obey
- inflexibilityQuality of being unbending
unyielding · adamancy · hardheadedness · bullheadedness · pertinacity · willfulness · doggedness · tenacity
Unaffected by high temperatures
- thermalPertaining to warmth
- fireproofUnable to ignite
- ceramicFired clay material
- kilnOven for hardening clay
furnace · crucible · high-temperature · alumina · silica · magnesia · sintering · calcination
Pertaining to the heart
- nerveSignal-carrying body fiber
- absoluteTotal, without qualification
- relativeConnected by blood
- repolarizationMembrane voltage reset
excitability · depolarization · recovery · unresponsive · stimulus · threshold · muscle · neuronal
Unaffected by medication
- unresponsiveFailing to react or reply
- nonresponseFailure to answer
- relapseReturn to former illness
- remissionTemporary disease absence
intractable · epilepsy · leukemia · depression · cancer · anemia · second-line
stubbornness
Refusal to yield
- intransigenceRefusal to compromise
- obduracyStubborn refusal to yield
- recalcitranceStubborn refusal to obey
inflexibility · unyielding · adamancy · hardheadedness · bullheadedness · pertinacity · willfulness · doggedness · tenacity · implacability
heat-resistant
Unaffected by high temperatures
kiln · furnace · crucible · high-temperature · alumina · silica · magnesia · sintering · calcination · molten
cardiac
Pertaining to the heart
repolarization · excitability · depolarization · recovery · unresponsive · stimulus · threshold · muscle · neuronal · electrophysiology
drug-resistant
Unaffected by medication
- unresponsiveFailing to react or reply
- nonresponseFailure to answer
- relapseReturn to former illness
remission · intractable · epilepsy · leukemia · depression · cancer · anemia · second-line
- stubbornnessstubbornness, obstinacy, pigheadedness, bullheadedness, mulishness
- refractoriesrefractories, firebrick, fire brick, fire bricks, fire clay
- clay propertiesplasticity, porosity, shrinkage, workability, water absorption
- foundry sanddry sand
refractorinesscompliance
Adhering to requirements
obedience · docility · tractability · submissiveness · deference
refractorinessmalleability
Capacity for deformation without breaking
pliability · ductility · workability · plasticity · moldability
refractorinessresponsiveness
Readiness to react
sensitivity · susceptibility · reactivity · drug sensitivity · receptivity
refractory, refract, refraction, refracting, refractive, refractor