insusceptible
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It has recently been claimed that pigs are insusceptible, but I have known of many instances in which the offal of anthrax cattle, when devoured by pigs, has determined fatal anthrax in the latter.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The plant next, though plastic in its elements, is comparatively insusceptible of change.
From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry
These grave questions are as yet insusceptible of answer.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman
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 Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
Immunity.—Some persons are insusceptible to infection by certain diseases, from which they are said to enjoy a natural immunity.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
Vocabulary lists containing insusceptible
cept, capt, ceive (take, hold, seize)
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