penetrant

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“It would give us a better sense of how penetrant the virus is in our communities,” said William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University.

From Washington Times • May 14, 2020

Only five per cent of disease-related gene mutations are fully penetrant, which means they guarantee the disease.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 17, 2019

Whole-brain radiation treatment – highly penetrant x-rays dosed directly through her skull – would also be used against leukaemia growth in her brain.

From The Guardian • Jan. 17, 2011

This gas is 3. blistering penetrant, the effects of which last for a considerable length of time, owing to its slow evaporation.

From Time Magazine Archive

His glance caught the white gleam of the tiny belled blossoms that clustered on a crooked sour-wood by the path, and the penetrant perfume of them stirred to life a new and subtler emotion.

From Heart of the Blue Ridge by Baily, Waldron