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Definition of Predisposition

1. Noun. Susceptibility to a pathogen.

2. Noun. An inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way.

3. Noun. A disposition in advance to react in a particular way.

Definition of Predisposition

1. n. The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger.

Definition of Predisposition

1. Noun. the state of being predisposed or susceptible to something, especially to a disease or other health problem ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Predisposition

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Predisposition

prediscount prediscover prediscovered prediscoveries prediscovering prediscovers prediscovery prediscussed prediscussion predisponencies

predisponency predispose predisposed predisposes predisposing predisposition (current term) predispositions predissected predissociation predissociations

predistressed predistribution preditor preditors predive predjudice predjudices prednimustine prednisolone prednisolones

Literary usage of Predisposition

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Orthopaedic Surgery by Royal Whitman (1919)
"Three factors are recognized in the etiology of tuberculous disease: the infectious element (the tubercle bacillus), the predisposition of the patient, ..."

2. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"It would certainly be wrong to ascribe these results to a national predisposition of the German churches and type of mind for Christianity. ..."

3. A Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind by James Cowles Prichard (1835)
"ARTICLE I. Of constitutional predisposition, whether hereditary or original. ... A natural predisposition may be inferred to have existed in every instance ..."

4. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1902)
"PROCEEDINGS OF THE On the Question of "predisposition" and "Immunity" in Plants. By Professor H. MARSHALL WARD, D.Sc., FRS [Read 20 January 1902. ..."

5. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity by John Hutton Balfour Browne (1875)
"Now, it is exactly in this way that proof of hereditary predisposition should, ... No proof of predisposition, the jury ought be warned, is sufficient of ..."

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