What's the difference between predetermination and predisposition?

Predetermination


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When subjects centered themselves actively, or additionally, contracted trunk flexor or extensor muscles to predetermined levels of activity, no increase in trunk positioning accuracy was found.
  • (2) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
  • (3) The duration of electrophoresis was based on the migration of a marker dye for a predetermined distance.
  • (4) Ventricular fibrillation was then induced and, after predetermined downtimes ranging from 5 to 60 minutes, thoracotomy was performed, and open-chest bimanual cardiac massage was started.
  • (5) Anesthetized, intubated kittens were subjected to one of two procedures: (1) insertion of a suction catheter to a predetermined distance and withdrawal with or without the application of suction or (2) insertion of the catheter until resistance was met and withdrawal with or without the application of suction.
  • (6) Minute ventilation (VE) was kept constant at a predetermined individual level during all treatments.
  • (7) Thus, it appears that the increased expression of the regulatory MLC2 gene in SHR atrial cells is a predetermined event, which, most likely, participates in functional adaptation of the myocardium in response to pressure overload and subsequent hypertrophy.
  • (8) Furthermore, the minimal actual treatment differences that can be detected with a reasonable (80%) probability at a predetermined (5%) significance level using a crossover design were estimated for different electrophysiologic variables.
  • (9) Each student conducted a medication-history interview with one of two simulated patients who presented a predetermined history; interviews were videotaped from behind a one-way mirror.
  • (10) The %s of fibroblasts, PMN's lymphocytes, plasma cells and macrophages were estimated in a predetermined standardized area close to the apical termination of the junctional epithelium.
  • (11) Under in vitro inhibition of alpha-glucosidasic activity by glucose in hemolymph of Bee prenymphas, the reaction order (n) (predetermined according to the initial natural glycemia) decreases with increasing inhibitor concentration and the affinity constant between enzyme and substrate undergoes lower variations than in other cases where (n) does not change.
  • (12) The effect of indomethacin administration on the mortality rate of brain-injured rats was studied in four groups of animals subjected to a level of injury with a fluid-percussion apparatus predetermined to cause 50% mortality (50% lethal dose, or LD50).
  • (13) To estimate the mean cardiac output, at least two measurements should be made at predetermined points of the ventilatory cycle.
  • (14) Microliter volumes of cell suspension were placed directly onto a computer-controlled cryostage and cooled to a predetermined subzero temperature.
  • (15) A genetic procedure is directed for the isolation of chromosomal deletions and duplications with predetermined endpoints.
  • (16) Specific checklists completed by patients and predetermined scoring protocols yielded reliable data and reduced faculty time.
  • (17) "It seems that the Metropolitan police, the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] and even the court have all colluded to implement a predetermined decision which was made in Washington.
  • (18) Various techniques can be used to deposit the dose accurately in a predetermined intracranial volume.
  • (19) The same brush was then agitated in a SBW vial, which was centrifuged, the cell pellet being smeared over a predetermined area of a slide.
  • (20) Eleven children with severe perennial asthma and a poor clinical response to disodium cromoglycate were studied in a 4-month, double blind trial involving 1 month's treatment with placebo, disodium cromoglycate, betamethasone 17 valerate, and both drugs combined according to a predetermined random design.

Predisposition


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger.
  • (n.) Previous fitness or adaptation to any change, impression, or purpose; susceptibility; -- applied to material things; as, the predisposition of the body to disease.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pedigree studies have suggested that there may be an inherited predisposition to many apparently nonfamilial colorectal cancers and a genetic model of tumorigenesis in common colorectal cancer has been proposed that includes the activation of dominantly acting oncogenes and the inactivation of growth suppressor genes.
  • (2) Thus, a4 and a2 alleles of the c-Ha-ras-1 may perhaps be viewed as genetic markers of predisposition to lung, ovarian and thyroid cancer, respectively, in combination with other clinical parameters.
  • (3) The reported findings strongly support the predisposition hypothesis.
  • (4) The characteristic predisposition to neoplasia exists, however, as probably does that to diabetes mellitus.
  • (5) Our knowledge of the pathogenesis of ordinary baldness is far from complete but a genetic predisposition is necessary and androgen production must be present.
  • (6) Predisposition to pancreatitis relates to duct size rather than stone size per se.
  • (7) Of CD patients, 92% (50% DR3 and 42% DR5,7) compared to 18% of the controls carry both DQA1*0501 and DQB1*0201 alleles, so that the combination confers an RR of 52, higher than both the risks of the single alleles (DQA1*0501 RR = 19, DQB1*0201 RR = 30), confirming the primary role of the dimer in determining genetic predisposition to CD both in DR3 and in DR5,7 subjects.
  • (8) For over two decades, evidence has been accumulating that supports a genetic predisposition to alcoholism and the presence of subgroups among alcoholics.
  • (9) A thromboembolism is sometimes predictable in individuals if there is migraine, visual disturbance, or certain predispositions seen in pregnancy such as toxemia or hypertension.
  • (10) Questionnaires assessing symptoms, disability and handicap, predisposition to anxiety, and current anxiety and depression were completed by 127 people attending neuro-otology clinics with a major complaint of vertigo or dysequilibrium.
  • (11) The functional interaction between prostacyclin and thromboxane was examined in terms of a number of risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD), such as ageing, atherosclerosis, arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, obesity, hypokinesia, smoking, alcoholism, sex differences, and predisposition to the disease.
  • (12) Because the predisposition locus for multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A (MEN2A) has been mapped to chromosome 10 by genetic linkage analysis, it has become possible to identify gene carriers by following the transmission of linked genetic markers from affected parents to offspring at risk for MEN2A.
  • (13) The findings suggest that migraine, major depression and anxiety disorders might share common predispositions.
  • (14) Microstructural rearrangements and nonhomologous recombination in nondisjunction of chromosomes during cell division are considered parallel with mosaicism as one of possible reasons of genetic predisposition.
  • (15) There was no correlation between specific HLA antigens and predisposition to develop cytomegalovirus infection.
  • (16) The certainty of a strong genetic predisposition to malignant melanoma was first established over 35 years ago.
  • (17) The sampling was balanced with respect to age, gender, and predisposition across the three ordinal exposure categories.
  • (18) Trait anxiety levels (predisposition to anxiety) and personality profiles were recorded in four novice anaesthetists prior to the start of their training in anaesthesia.
  • (19) Genetic predisposition to diabetes is characterized by immunodeficiency as evident from inadequate levels of antibodies to infectious or noninfectious antigens and absolute and relative deficiency in spleen lymphocyte subsets and total numbers of spleen cells.
  • (20) Tumor suppressor genes have been identified by genetic analysis either as loci associated with an inherited predisposition to certain tumors or by mapping studies that demonstrate allelic loss (reduction to homozygosity or loss of heterozygosity) during tumor development.

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