insusceptibility

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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.

He could imagine being married to her so much more easily than being in love with her, and he was a little vexed with himself for his own insusceptibility.

From Tante by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

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

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

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