The phrase "absence of response" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a lack of reaction or reply to something. Example: Despite repeatedly asking for an explanation, she was met with an absence of response from her boss.
Instead we were surprised at the near absence of response, and the rather peculiar form it took when it came.
The lead defense lawyer, Lowell H. Becraft Jr. of Huntsville, Ala., said he built the defense around the absence of response by the I.R.S. to Ms. Kuglin's letters.
Before she began treatment with antidepressants, she was living in "a computer program of total negativity... an absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest".
An absence of response corresponded to a zero score.
Absence of response to treatment was not observed.
The absence of response to the administration of 0.5 mg/kg in 30 minutes does not justify any continued administration.
The simplest method for evaluation of selectivity of an analytical method is checking of absence of response in blank samples.
They correlated a wide root cone angle with an absence of response to a gravitropic stimulus (Ueno and Sato 1992).
For standard-risk CLL we recommend allo-HCT in the absence of response or if there is evidence of disease progression after B cell receptor (BCR) inhibitors.
The YAC128 carriers were less accurate in their responses to both S1 and S2 stimuli in the absence of response latency deficits.
Generally, deletion of an essential cis-element resulted in an almost complete absence of response, whereas deletion of other parts of promoters merely lowered promoter activity (Guiltinan et al. 1990; Tong et al. 2006; Kobayashi et al. 2007).
