increased resistance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofincreaseandresistance
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increase
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɪn.kriːs/us/ˈɪn.kriːs/
a rise in the amount or size ...
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resistance
noun
uk/rɪˈzɪs.təns/us/rɪˈzɪs.təns/
the act of fighting against something that is attacking you, or refusing to ...
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(Definition ofincreaseandresistancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Conversely, this did little to protect owners from greater pain, and hence provokedincreasedresistanceto clearance.
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Selection forincreasedresistancecan influence hardening or the hardening response if mechanisms that underlie the hardening response become constitutively expressed in the selected lines.
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Observations on the resistance to schistosome infection of neonatal mice born to immune mothers with a demonstration ofincreasedresistancein lactating mice.
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Environmental stresses also cause poor root development, which results in reduction in potential crop water supply, andincreasedresistanceto water uptake.
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Decreased resistance to passive movement was common; whileincreasedresistancewas never observed.
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Cost of resistance : relationship between reduced fertility andincreasedresistancein a snail-schistosome hostparasite system.
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Whenincreasedresistanceto the injection was perceived, another tubule was selected and the procedure repeated.
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Furthermore, the authors demonstrateincreasedresistanceto paclitaxel in mutantexpressing cells.
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Reduced morphogenesis,increasedresistanceto environmental extremes and altered or reduced behavioural activity is associated with diapause.
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This could be due to increased blood volume (preload),increasedresistance(afterload) or both.
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They postulated that this effect reflected the increased work done in overcoming theincreasedresistance, and that this correlated with tone.
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Birch leaves as a resource for herbivores: seasonal occurrence ofincreasedresistancein foliage after mechanical damage of adjacent leaves.
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Genetic engineering of wheat forincreasedresistanceto powdery mildew resistance.
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A slightincreasedresistanceto diastolic flow, due to an increase in left ventricular mass, may explain this finding.
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Recent antibiotic use was associated withincreasedresistanceto erythromycin.
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Hydrodynamic research has suggested that a valveless chamber may generate turbulence andincreasedresistanceto forward flow.
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Since oxygen selectively decreases pulmonary vascular resistance,increasedresistanceis achieved by decreasing supplemental oxygen, by ventilation with room air, or by mixing nitrogen with room air.
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