Medical Definition of refractoriness
: the insensitivity to further immediate stimulation that develops in irritable and especially nervous tissue as a result of intense or prolonged stimulation.
Is refractoriness a word?
The quality or condition of being unruly: disorderliness, fractiousness, indocility, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, unruliness, untowardness, wildness.
What does refractory mean medically?
(reh-FRAK-tor-ee) In medicine, describes a disease or condition that does not respond to treatment.
