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refractoriness

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Soon, his soul (al-nafs al-ammarah) with its knack for refractoriness forced him to a spiritual and intellectual showdown.
One of the most puzzling aspects of arsenic carcinogenesis has been the high susceptibility of humans and the seeming refractoriness of laboratory animals to arsenic in drinking water (National Research Council 1999).
This method of accounting for black yellow fever refractoriness, however, has the appearance rather than the essence of a satisfactory explanation, for it contains a fundamental contradiction; if endemic yellow fever had produced a largely immune population of West African peoples, then the virus itself, with no host, should have disappeared.
 
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