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predisposing factor

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predisposing factor
Etymology: L, prae + disponere, to dispose
any conditioning factor that influences both the type and the amount of resources that the individual can elicit to cope with stress. It may be biologic, psychologic, genetic, or sociocultural.


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He or she can identify your predisposing factors, those body traits that may make you more or less at risk to a knee injury.
He also said that adults with Down syndrome have even more predisposing factors for OSA than children, as they still have the craniofacial anomalies and are more likely to be obese or hypothyroid.
Performing a fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is a known predisposing factor in precipitating infarction.
 
 
 
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