Superdodger
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Someone especially resistant to a widespread infectious disease.
"Over the course of human history, scientists have identified only two instances of true virus superdodgers. That is, where a specific mutation in their genes makes people completely resistant to a virus. So that it slides off their cells, "like water sliding off a glass window," as Casanova puts it."
Example
More examples"Over the course of human history, scientists have identified only two instances of true virus superdodgers. That is, where a specific mutation in their genes makes people completely resistant to a virus. So that it slides off their cells, "like water sliding off a glass window," as Casanova puts it."
Etymology
From super + dodger.
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