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it or susceptible beforehand; to give a tendency to; as, debility predisposes the body to disease. Predisposing causes (Med.), causes which render the body liable to disease; predisponent causes.

ose; susceptibility; -- applied to material things; as, the predisposition of the body to disease.

Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease. -- Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly, adv.

A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy.

Predominant; prevalent; most general; as, the prevailing disease of a climate; a prevailing opinion.

ception, or practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor. The duke better knew what kind of argument were of prevalence with him. Clarendon.

ly or extensively existing; widespread; prevailing; as, a prevalent observance; prevalent disease. This was the most received and prevalent opinion. Woodward.

Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.

who prevents or obstructs; a hinderer; that which hinders; as, a preventer of evils or of disease.

ng to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease. Physic is either curative or preventive. Sir T. Browne. Preventive service, the duty performed by the armed police in guarding the coast against smuggling. [Eng]

The kindling of a disease into action; also, the procatarctic cause. Quincy.

Of or pertaining to prodromes; as, the prodromal stage of a disease.

To cause to be or to happen; to originate, as an effect or result; to bring about; as, disease produces pain; vice produces misery.

Serving to predispose; predisposing; as, a proeguminal cause of disease.

The act or art of foretelling the course and termination of a disease; also, the outlook afforded by this act of judgment; as, the prognosis of hydrophobia is bad.

by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.

Anticipating the usual time; -- applied to a periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every repetition.

Foreknowledge of a disease; prognosis.

A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.

Defending or preserving from disease; preventive. Coxe.