PREDISPOSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does predisposed mean? 

• PREDISPOSED (adjective)
  The adjective PREDISPOSED has 1 sense:

1. made susceptible

  Familiarity information: PREDISPOSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREDISPOSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made susceptible

Context example:

because of conditions in the mine, miners are predisposed to lung disease

Similar:

susceptible ((often followed by 'of' or 'to') yielding readily to or capable of)

 Context examples 

Like most rabbit breeds, the California rabbit is predisposed to developing cancer, especially uterine adenocarcinoma as well as lymphomas, sarcomas, and other carcinomas.

(California Rabbit, NCI Thesaurus)

While some of these genetic variants predisposed people to become obese, other variants provided protection against obesity and some of its major complications, such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

(Discovery of genetic variants that protect against obesity and type 2 diabetes could lead to new weight loss medicines, University of Cambridge)

The surviving cells also showed signs of DNA damage which means they can be predisposed to developing cancer in the future.

(Lung damage from agricultural fires probed, SciDev.Net)

There was, indeed, so deep a blush over Fanny's face at that moment as might warrant strong suspicion in a predisposed mind.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Semi-starvation and neglected colds had predisposed most of the pupils to receive infection: forty-five out of the eighty girls lay ill at one time.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Groups of individuals that exhibit differing characteristic behavior in customs, attitudes, practices, and behaviors, or are predisposed to certain health histories due to differences in ethnicity, race, religion, national origin, or economic standing (DCCPS)

(Culturally and Economically Diverse Group, NCI Thesaurus)