(a.) Having a tendency by nature; prone; proclivous.
Example Sentences:
(1) This suggests that isolation increases sexual proclivity.
(2) Although one person may seem more sensitive than another, the difference may lie in a greater proclivity to complain.
(3) Infants' proclivity to imitate was used to investigate early memory.
(4) In general, proclivity and arousal had different effects on behavior.
(5) The proclivity for complications to evolve varies with age, brain areas involved, whether the event is hemorrhagic or nonhemorrhagic in nature, and the presence of concomitant systemic disease.
(6) As a result, the data suggest that such cells express an increased proclivity to undergo metaplastic change and complete neoplastic transformation.
(7) At the time the tabloids were nearly herniating themselves in order to expose lesser celebrities' chemical proclivities – the Sun went to the bother of flying Tulisa Contostavlos to both Las Vegas and then LA as part of a sting operation that eventually extracted the information that she knew someone who could get hold of some coke – but the matter quietly blew over.
(8) Through the flexibility of the membrane prism is a definite advantage, because of its proclivity to reduce visual acuity and increase aberrations its prescription for adults often must be limited to only one eye.
(9) Inasmuch as the colons of these patients have a clear proclivity to neoplastic transformation and recurrence, subtotal colectomy as the initial curative colon procedure is practiced.
(10) Later, he developed the Substance Abuse Proclivity Scale (SAP; MacAndrew, 1986), specifically for screening younger males, using adolescent and young adult substance misusing and nonmisusing males 16 to 22 years of age.
(11) This study investigated cross-modal transfer in infants by their proclivity to respond differentially to novel and familiar stimuli after familiarization in a different sensory modality.
(12) Choroid plexus neoplasm may be a manifestation of the inherited proclivity to tumor development in the breast cancer-sarcoma syndrome.
(13) It does not appear to be associated with a particular proclivity to evolve into carcinoma and short-term follow-up suggests that excisional biopsy is probably adequate therapy.
(14) They maintain that "one has within oneself proclivity toward growth and unity of personality ... and an automatic thrust toward expression" of these qualities (Yalom, 1980, p. 9).
(15) Meanwhile Igor Mladenovic writes: "Based on what you've seen so far in the tournament, would you say Becker has started implementing any visible modifications to Djokovic's game, especially with regards to his proclivity to finish points at the net?
(16) Entitlement and narcissistic proclivities are viewed according to the developmental history as well as the clinical manifestations (intensity, frequency, duration, and spread).
(17) These points are illustrated by discussions of how the structures of headgroup- and backbone-modified phospholipid analogues influence their proclivities to form distinct types of hydrated solid phases, dehydrated "crystralline" phases and nonlamellar phases.
(18) We conclude that MIP-101 has a high tumorigenic and invasive potential but a low metastatic proclivity, except when grown in the peritoneum, and that pretreatment of tumor-bearing animals with CEA affects the metastatic proclivity.
(19) He was stripped of his paternal dignity as details of his sexual proclivities were extracted.
(20) But the apparent disconnect between the film's subject and the technological proclivities of its key crew provoked some comment following the film's cinematic release.
Prone
Definition:
(a.) Bending forward; inclined; not erect.
(a.) Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine.
(a.) Headlong; running downward or headlong.
(a.) Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level.
(a.) Inclined; propense; disposed; -- applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is characterized by an absence of seromucous glands in the oropharynx and tracheobronchial tree, making children with this disease prone to viral and bacterial respiratory infections.
(2) Moreover, the mucoid substances of the sensillum lymph are probably involved in water conservation, since sensilla are prone to water loss, because the overlying cuticle must be permeable to the chemical stimuli.
(3) Analysis of mice injected with helper-free P90A virus stocks demonstrates that the variants are generated during viral replication in vivo, probably as a consequence of error-prone reverse transcription.
(4) The effects of chronic dietary salt-loading and nifedipine therapy on hypertension-prone (SBH), -resistant (SBN) and parental (SB) Sabra rats were investigated.
(5) The major behavioural assessment was the Jenkins Activity Survey (JAS) designed to measure the coronary-prone behaviour pattern (Type A).
(6) In 25 patients we evaluated the efficacy of the prone position to counter these technical difficulties and found that the prone position offers visualization superior to the supine, especially in obese and uncooperative patients and those with abundant bowel gas.
(7) However, nonsuppression in the dexamethasone suppression test was not specifically associated with the pain-prone disorder, which was further characterized by the factor models of the Hamilton Depression Scale.
(8) Advancing age was associated with a reduction in cell proliferative responses to PHA in both substrains, although the rate of decline was significantly more rapid in the senescence-prone animals.
(9) Surviving cells show such cancer-prone genetic consequences.
(10) Aneurysms enlarge rapidly when coupled with infection and are prone to rupture, thus requiring extensive surgical repair.
(11) Asymmetrical gait pattern with mild gait disturbance was found more often in infants lying in supine than in prone.
(12) Using a biopsy procedure, splenic pancreas was removed from both 65 and from 80 day old diabetes prone BB rats.
(13) However, DIO-prone [3H]PAC binding was only 14-39% of DR-prone levels in 9 areas including 4 amygdalar nuclei, the lateral area, dorso- and ventromedial nuclei of the hypothalamus, median eminence and medial dorsal thalamic n. Although it is unclear whether this widespread decrease in [3H]PAC binding implicates brain alpha 2-adrenoceptors in the pathophysiology of DIO, it does correlate with a phenotypic marker (increase glucose-induced NE release) which predicts the subsequent development of DIO on a high-energy diet.
(14) The effect of varying amounts of dietary magnesium in conjunction with potassium (K) on hypertension and stroke mortality in hypertensive stroke prone (SHRsp) rats was studied.
(15) The results indicate the beta-globin domain is a mosaic of aggregation-resistant and aggregation-prone regions with the latter being associated with H1 and H5.
(16) Under the influence of immunosuppression cutaneous hyperkeratoses more rapidly evolve into squamous-cell carcinoma, multiple skin cancers occur in some patients, and keratoacanthoma is not only more frequent but also prone to early recurrence.
(17) This chromosome region in T cells is unusually prone to develop breaks in vivo, perhaps reflecting instability generated by somatic rearrangement of T-cell receptor genes during normal differentiation in this cell lineage.
(18) These data suggest that the error-prone repair pathway participates in mutagenesis by quercetin and its metabolites.
(19) The City is rife with gambling addicts whose habits contribute to a risk-prone culture of the sort which helped Kweku Adoboli lose UBS £1.5bn, according to one London trader.
(20) The spontaneously diabetic BB rat syndrome is associated with a marked lymphopenia, which affects all members of litters of diabetes-prone rats, and may be a necessary condition for the development of the disease.