insusceptibility

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Thus animals may prove refractory to a small dose of the poison of anthrax, yet Chauveau has shown that this virus will overcome all native or acquired insusceptibility when administered in excess.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Thus certain forms of blindness or insanity are due primarily to gonorrheal or syphilitic infection, insusceptibility to which is rare or unknown.

From The Social Direction of Evolution An Outline of the Science of Eugenics by Kellicott, William E.

Yet it is not untrue to say that variations in children, dependent upon heredity, show chiefly in the relative susceptibility or insusceptibility of the child to the influences of environment and management.

From The Nervous Child by Cameron, Hector Charles

That I have since thought proper to write the tale in the narrative and not the dramatic form, is not because of any insusceptibility of the material to such uses.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 by Various

In a few cases it is known that immunity or insusceptibility to specific forms of infection is a unit character which follows Mendelian laws in heredity.

From The Social Direction of Evolution An Outline of the Science of Eugenics by Kellicott, William E.