resistensya

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish resistencia (“resistance”). By semantic shift, since diverged to mean "immunity" and "immune system".

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: re‧sis‧ten‧sya
  • IPA(key): /ɾɛsisˈtɛnsja/

Noun

resistensya

  1. (medicine) immunity
  2. immune system
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