A pre-existing tendency to suffer from a disease or medical condition; susceptibility to disease.
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| 释义 | the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > susceptibility to disease (6) predisposition1622 A pre-existing tendency to suffer from a disease or medical condition; susceptibility to disease. diathesis1681 Medicine. A permanent (hereditary or acquired) condition of the body which renders it liable to certain special diseases or affections; a… miasm1833 Homeopathy. An infectious principle; an acquired or inherited tendency or predisposition to a particular disease. vulnerability1881 spec. in Pathology (see quot. 1881). Subcategories:— immunodeficiency (2) |
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