refractory
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Is refractory a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (medicine) Resistant to treatment; not responding adequately to therapy.Examples: "Many of the vague and refractory cases of neck and shoulder pain and of migraine may be due to cervical disc disease."; "In 33 adult patients with long standing refractory epilepsy on treatment with one or two standard anti-convulsant drugs,"
2. (biology) Incapable of registering a reaction or stimulus.Examples: "The production of a generator potential leaves a refractory state in the receptor membrane […]"; "The […] delivery of external stimuli […] delineates the pacemaker refractory period after the emission of a pacing stimulus and after the sensing of a spontaneous beat."
Definition source: Wiktionary