insusceptible
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One-thousandth of a drop of virulent anthrax blood invariably killed the guinea-pig, while it left the rabbit unharmed.2 Klein has never found a rabbit insusceptible.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
After a disease has been endemic among a people for many generations that people gradually becomes quite insusceptible to its effects and suffers much less from it than before.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
One is, to use non-humanized lymph, since the lower animals are insusceptible to syphilis.1 This is simple.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The trade of a tin-typer proved too narrow for the lad’s ambition; it was insusceptible of expansion, he explained; it was not truly modern; and by a sudden conversion of front he became a railroad-scalper.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The policeman with his taboo did make moral and social questions insusceptible to treatment in party platforms.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
Vocabulary lists containing insusceptible
cept, capt, ceive (take, hold, seize)
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