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

It's just this sort of subtle, penetrant reasoning that gives us all such confidence in the future.

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