penetrant
Example Sentences
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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
It's just this sort of subtle, penetrant reasoning that gives us all such confidence in the future.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet the few penetrant minds which recognized a remarkable power and a method of strange fascination in the stories did not make the public nor influence the public mind.
From Literary and Social Essays by Curtis, George William
