insusceptibility

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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

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

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