0 to influence someone to behave or think in a particular way or to have a particular condition:
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.