0 to influence someone to behave or think in a particular way or to have a particular condition: --
However, extensive investigation failed to identify any known defect of immunity predisposing to such infections.
The carrier was a 78-year-old man with predisposing risk factors (frequent hospitalization, history of recent surgery and antibiotic use).
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.
Exploration of the factors associated with psychiatric morbidity provides insight into both predisposing and contributory aspects that may be amenable to intervention.
Furthermore, we are predisposed to learn certain reactions to certain stimuli.
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.
There is also an increase in sympathetic versus parasympathetic activity9 which predisposes to a greater degree of peripheral vasodilation.
Disruption of the spindle leads to abnormal chromosomal segregation predisposing to aneuploidy and hence apoptosis at the pre-implantation embryonic stage.
