be+refractory
81refractory — a. Stubborn, obstinate, stiff, perverse, dogged, mulish, heady, headstrong, cross grained, intractable, unyielding, contumacious, disobedient, unruly, ungovernable, cantankerous, unmanageable, recalcitrant …
82refractory — adjective formal disobedient and difficult to deal with or control …
83refractory — adj recalcitrant, contumacious, froward, balky, uncooperative, crossgrained, wrong headed, perverse, contrary, willful, self willed, stiff necked, U.S. Inf. notionate, Inf. cussed, Archaic. untoward; obstinate, stubborn, stubborn as a mule,… …
84refractory — re·frac·to·ry …
85refractory — adj. unresponsive: applied to a condition that fails to respond satisfactorily to a given treatment …
86refractory — a. stubborn; disobedient; immune; n. material resistant to heat, corrosion, fusion, etc …
87refractory — In medicine, describes a disease or condition that does not respond to treatment …
88refractory cancer — Cancer that does not respond to treatment. The cancer may be resistant at the beginning of treatment or it may become resistant during treatment. Also called resistant cancer …
89refractory — adj. & n. adj. 1 stubborn, unmanageable, rebellious. 2 a (of a wound, disease, etc.) not yielding to treatment. b (of a person etc.) resistant to infection. 3 (of a substance) hard to fuse or work. n. (pl. ies) a substance especially resistant to …
90refractory period — noun (neurology) the time after a neuron fires or a muscle fiber contracts during which a stimulus will not evoke a response • Topics: ↑neurology • Hypernyms: ↑biological time …