nonresponder
nounEtymology From non- + responder.
1
A person who does not respond.
- The court sent "requests to show cause" to all questionnaire non-responders.
2
Medicine, Sciences A person who does not show an immune response to a virus after being vaccinated against it; someone who does not react normally to a drug.
- A vaccine non-responder is a person who does not develop protective surface antibodies after completing two full series of injections.
- We now know that about one in 10 people on the drugs are what scientists call “non-responders” who lose less than 5 percent of their body weight.2026 June 8, Dani Blum, “GLP-1 Drugs: 6 Things We’ve Learned About Their Effects”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Derived terms
- serononresponder