BIOCOMPATIBILITIES Antonyms

• a state of misfortune or affliction

• a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event

• hypersensitivity reaction to a particular allergen; symptoms can vary greatly in intensity

• a state of deep-seated ill-will

• the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors

• an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility

• (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure

• a feeling of intense dislike

• the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away

• the act of rejecting something

• the state of being rejected

• (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign

• the speech act of rejecting

• the force by which bodies repel one another

• intense aversion

• the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand

• the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

• any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

• a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

• the military action of resisting the enemy's advance

• (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease

• the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents

• a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

• the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)

• (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

• an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

• group action in opposition to those in power

• the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time

• (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)

• the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination