predisposition 的定义
- the fact or condition of being predisposed: a predisposition to think optimistically.
- Medicine/Medical. tendency to a condition or quality, usually based on the combined effects of genetic and environmental factors.
predisposition 近义词
willingness, inclination
更多predisposition例句
- Maybe running lots of ultramarathons adds a few months of life expectancy for 99 percent of us, but shortens it by a decade for an unlucky fraction of a percent who have some sort of underlying issue or genetic predisposition.
- It could be a person’s lucky number, there could be some weird human predisposition to these digits.
- We have an innate predisposition for music, there’s no question about that.
- Few of the cancer-stricken family members were related by blood to the Goolsbys — some had married into the family — which, to Andrea, ruled out the possibility that the cancers were caused by a genetic predisposition.
- “You can have a genetic predisposition to depression,” Gotlib says.
- “In general, loneliness is more a personal predisposition than an objective social condition,” he said.
- He flatly stated that sexual orientation is a matter of biological predisposition.
- Basso said Alleman had a genetic predisposition for cardiac problems, as both of his parents died of heart attacks in their 50s.
- When was the first time I realized this was beyond a predisposition to anxiety?
- But his ideological predisposition matters less than budgetary reality.
- For what less than disease can we call a necessity of error and a predisposition to sin and sickness?
- But the good man's plans could not prevail against his nephew's predisposition for the land.
- This statement may be interpreted to refer to a predisposition rather than to an inherited characteristic.
- It cannot be disputed that man bears within himself, in his personality, a predisposition for divinity.
- Hence, especially if there be any pre-existing uterine disease, or a predisposition thereto, miscarriage is a serious thing.