| 词汇 | predispose |
| 释义 | predispose verb[ T ] us/ˌprid·ɪˈspoʊz/ to influence someone to behave or think in a particular way or to have a particular condition: Individualism predisposes many people to look for individual solutions to social problems. Your family history can help a doctor determine if you are predisposed to developing heart disease. Examples of predisposepredispose Clinical characteristics and predisposing factors in acute drug-induced akathisia. The suggestion is that a single inherited trait predisposes an individual to disease and also inclines him towards smoking. In other words, there was no evidence that previous deployments protected or predisposed the individual to the effects of new exposures. If traits of theoretical or clinical interest are observed, then these characteristics may have been present before illness onset and predisposed to its manifestation. Nevertheless, rather than giving primary impetus, these forces strengthened the will of those already ideologically predisposed to favour liberalisation. Consequently, horses may be predisposed to more sub-atmospheric intrapulmonary pressures and also shear forces that damage the dorsocaudal lung lobes. In other cases, the predisposing factors with which environmental risk exposures interact may be inherited. Disruption of the spindle leads to abnormal chromosomal segregation predisposing to aneuploidy and hence apoptosis at the pre-implantation embryonic stage. There is also an increase in sympathetic versus parasympathetic activity9 which predisposes to a greater degree of peripheral vasodilation. A given neighborhood may have many individuals predisposed to such norms without the neighbors having a sense that theirs is a safe place for children. Furthermore, we are predisposed to learn certain reactions to certain stimuli. Exploration of the factors associated with psychiatric morbidity provides insight into both predisposing and contributory aspects that may be amenable to intervention. In most cases, we found that the diagnosis of asthma preceded the diagnosis of pneumonia, suggesting that asthma predisposes children to lower respiratory tract infection. The carrier was a 78-year-old man with predisposing risk factors (frequent hospitalization, history of recent surgery and antibiotic use). However, extensive investigation failed to identify any known defect of immunity predisposing to such infections. See all examples of predispose These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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