insusceptibility
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The germ may therefore be present in a herd without any manifest injury, its disease-producing power having for the time abated considerably, or the whole herd being in a condition of comparative insusceptibility.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
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
Some individuals are refractory to vaccination, but complete insusceptibility is exceedingly rare.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The insusceptibility to anthrax is often characteristic of certain individuals or families or of the animals living in a particular district.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 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.
