predisposing

If there is no predisposing trauma—well, that might mean real trouble.

This may conveniently be discussed under Predisposing causes, and Exciting causes.

From these conditions originates the active predisposing cause of pneumonia, to which we have already alluded.

Here then is a very marked case without any known predisposing local cause.

Father Kircher says that there is no doubt that worry plays an important role in predisposing persons to take the disease.

It is however, at least possible that the new diet of the civilised native may be a predisposing factor.