lethality 的定义
- the capacity to cause great harm, destruction, or death:Many pathogens are self-limited by their own lethality—the host dies before it has a chance to spread the pathogen.
- the likelihood of causing great harm, destruction, or death:Mutations can increase or decrease lethality, but most viruses mutate to less lethal forms.
- death:Prion diseases, such as so-called “mad cow,” are characterized by neurodegeneration and lethality.
lethality 近义词
fatality
更多lethality例句
- About an hour after the high court’s action, Hall was put to death by lethal injection in the Bureau of Prison’s facility in Terre Haute, Ind.
- That trio would represent the best top-end talent in the Eastern Conference and offer a lethal combination of scoring, playmaking and shooting to Steve Nash, the Nets’ new coach.
- The Justice Department has carried out more lethal injections in the past four months than the total number the federal government executed over the previous three decades.
- However, research has found that after farmers target wolves with lethal management, the canids increasingly prey on their neighbors' livestock.
- Patient advocates counter that too much went wrong once the virus was inside, lethal containment lapses that should have been cited by inspectors.
- Zyklon B, a gas used by the Nazis in the death camps, is a haunting example of the rapid lethality of one form, hydrogen cyanide.
- But the Boston bombings are still somewhat unusual for their lethality and success in America.
- But the volatility of the Syria situation and the lethality of the weapons involved justify such an initiative.
- True, the study strongly demonstrates the lethality of obesity.
- There is a lot that could be done to reduce the frequency and lethality of such crimes.