insusceptible
adjective
not susceptible; incapable of being influenced or affected (usually followed by of orto ).
insusceptibility
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a word derived from
insusceptible.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Hector Charles Cameron
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
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
