Usually means: Temporary inability to repeat response.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. refractory period: Merriam-Webster
  2. refractory period: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. refractory period: Collins English Dictionary
  4. refractory period: Vocabulary.com
  5. refractory period: Wiktionary
  6. refractory period: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. refractory period: Dictionary.com
  8. Refractory period (cardiac), Refractory period (physiology), Refractory period (sex), Refractory period: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. refractory period: Rhymezone
  10. refractory period: FreeDictionary.org
  11. refractory period: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. refractory period: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. refractory period: Legal dictionary

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  1. Refractory period (biology), Refractory period (cardiac), Refractory period (neurology), refractory period: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. refractory period: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. Refractory period (biology), Refractory period (cardiac), Refractory period (neurology), refractory period: Medical dictionary

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  1. refractory period: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See refractory_periods as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (refractory period)

noun:  (biology) The period, after excitation, during which a membrane recovers its polarization and is not able to respond to a second stimulus.
noun:  A recovery phase after orgasm, during which it is physiologically impossible for an individual to have additional orgasms.

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