disposition disposition protective resistance Lindsay Cowell Examples include the following: CCR5 mutations protect T cells from HIV invasion. A tumor cell's resistance to chemotherapy protects the cell from damage by the drug (although this harms the patient). An insect's resistance to insecticide protects it from the insecticide. Albert Goldfain The disposition is realized in a process that mitigates damage to the bearer and has the part as a participant. Alexander Diehl A disposition that inheres in a material entity in virtue of the fact that the entity has a part (e.g. a gene product), which itself has a disposition to mitigate damage to the entity.