(n.) The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fractures which occur near the base of the dens have a low propensity to unite spontaneously.
(2) There was also no significant correlation when prognostic factors were compared to uptake in the individual organ systems except that T cell disease was associated with a significantly greater propensity for lymph node uptake.
(3) Three strains of C. burnetii were studied because of the purported propensity of each strain to cause acute or chronic disease and to be resistant or susceptible to antibiotics.
(4) Thus, an abnormality of neutrophil oxidative metabolism cannot explain the propensity to bacterial infections in sickle cell disease.
(5) The stroma has a propensity to accumulate fluid and to create macroscopic cystic spaces.
(6) Myelography and cytology studies are necessary in the evaluation of all newly diagnosed patients with medulloblastoma and may also be indicated for patients with other brain tumors with a known propensity for dissemination.
(7) Where UV radiation is restricted, individual propensity to rickets within a given Asian community is mainly determined by dietary factors.
(8) The polymorphisms seen could provide useful linkage markers in locating the chromosomal sites of the genetic loci responsible for raised blood pressure in the SHR and the propensity to strokes in the SHRSP.
(9) A propensity for elevated shear in the deep cartilage layer near the contact periphery, observed in nearly all computed stress distributions, is consistent with previous experimental findings of fissuring at that level in the impulsively loaded rabbit knee.
(10) The propensity for narcolepsy, a clinical sleep disorder of unknown etiology, is virtually totally included within the HLA-DR2,DQw1 (DRw15,DQw6) phenotype.
(11) Patients with well-differentiated adenosquamous carcinoma persisted in having a worse prognosis (58.3% ten-year survival rate), compared with adenocarcinoma (84.3% ten-year survival rate), which was explained by the propensity of adenosquamous carcinoma to deeply invade the myometrium.
(12) College students completed a 17-item scale measuring the "propensity to argue controversial topics" and 7 other nominal-scale independent variables.
(13) Mating propensity in eight all-female laboratory lines was measured.
(14) In assortative mating systems modifiers favoring reduced assortment propensities tend to increase.
(15) However, CGS 19755 did not show a unique propensity for learning and memory disruption compared to other anticonvulsants.
(16) The results of ecological studies appear to be more consistent that those dealing with "specific" psychosomatic disorders and suggest that man has a general psychophysical propensity to disease.
(17) The propensity for specific fragmentation of peptide D seems to be correlated to the repetitive sequence, (Gly-Ser)2.
(18) This work clearly demonstrates the greater propensity of trans-dichlorodiammineplatinum(II) to form histone-histone and histone-DNA crosslinks compared with the antitumor active cis isomer, which binds first to the DNA and only forms crosslinks to the histones when the nucleosome core is heavily loaded with platinum.
(19) The rapid progression of disease, the high incidence of micrometastases (over 80%) at diagnosis, and the propensity of hematogenous spread to the bone marrow and the central nervous system (CNS) as well as the clinico-pathologic 'clusters' associated with particular presenting sites distinguish the pediatric forms of disease.
(20) Slower ventricular rates during atrial fibrillation would suggest an increased propensity for concealed conduction in the enhanced AV node conduction group than in the group with an accessory pathway.
Prurient
Definition:
(a.) Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious curiosity or propensity; lustful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Miller is suing the NoW's parent company, News Group, and Mulcaire, accusing them of breaching her privacy and of harassing her "solely for the commercial purpose of profiting from obtaining private information about her and to satisfy the prurient curiosity of members of the public regarding the private life of a well-known individual".
(2) Writing about Tulsa in The Photobook Volume 1 , authors Martin Parr and Gerry Badger say that the "incessant focus on the sleazy aspect of the lives portrayed, to the exclusion of almost anything else – whether photographed from the 'inside' or not – raises concerns about exploitation and drawing the viewer into a prurient, voyeuristic relationship with the work."
(3) There is nothing to prevent a judge from clearing a court while a potential line of questioning is explored, thus ensuring that such prurient details are not reported, often a major factor in the humiliation of a witness.
(4) It did not confuse public interest with a prurient interest by the public.
(5) The moralising strand will now have the chance to indulge in prurient probing of Mr Gingrich's personal life, while the populist faction interrogates Mr Romney's asset-stripping past.
(6) Now let's have fewer prurient questions about how they feel, and more probing questions about what they think – which ought to be what this election is about.
(7) In the Mail, which routinely prints a lot of very readable but prurient smut throughout its middle pages, it appeared as "w*****".
(8) Whether Vaz stays or goes, we must not let prurient interest in his personal life derail this precious moment – this chance for sex workers in the UK to live a life free from fear and stigma.
(9) The health scare ran wild on Twitter but journalists were frustrated by officials who called their thirst for information prurient and "un-African."
(10) All of the prurient details of the recent disgraceful case, where a 21-year-old was convicted and given a three-month suspended sentence for taking abortion pills she bought online, have been documented in this newspaper and others, some even going so far as to suggest a 10- to 12-week foetus is a “baby boy”.
(11) Zac Goldsmith, a multimillionaire MP, spoke for the first time about his decision to take out an injunction, arguing that they were necessary because, he said, some newspapers were unwilling "to distinguish between what is in the public interest and what is merely of prurient interest to some of the public".
(12) The Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith earlier called for parliament to pass a privacy law , arguing that some newspapers could not distinguish between the public interest and "what is merely of prurient interest to the public".
(13) Mr Letterman rarely offers anything approaching the threat that Mr Cameron might face in a Jeremy Paxman interview or if he ventured on to a studio sofa with a prurient UK host like Jonathan Ross or Russell Brand.
(14) I am not going to pretend that I looked at the online Muamba images with the pure dispassion of a cultural commentator: there is a prurient, ghoulish human instinct to know what the worst moments of life might look like.
(15) When the Dean of Jersey, the Very Rev Robert Key, held a service after the skull was found, it included the words: "From over-inquisitiveness, false sensationalism and prurient curiosity, good Lord, deliver us."
(16) Margaret Corvid : ‘Prurient interest must not derail the chance for sex workers to live free from fear and stigma’ I’m no fan of Keith Vaz, but when I read that he’d been accused of hiring male sex workers, I knew that defending him isn’t about him – it’s about our right as sex workers to work without threat of violence and arrest.
(17) Miller is suing News Group, the subsidiary that publishes the News of the World, and Mulcaire, accusing them of breaching her privacy and of harassing her "solely for the commercial purpose of profiting from obtaining private information about her and to satisfy the prurient curiosity of members of the public regarding the private life of a well-known individual".
(18) In January, the website Grantland (which is owned by ESPN Internet Ventures , a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company ) published an article – ostensibly about the inventor of a golf putter – that resulted in a prurient quest to uncover the subject's trans status, and which may have contributed to the article's subject's suicide.
(19) Zac Goldsmith, who has called for a privacy law, says that it is needed because some newspapers blur the lines between genuine public interest and "what is merely of prurient interest".
(20) The prurient nature of the questioning led its authors to conclude that some Home Office caseworkers were "fixated on sexual practice rather than sexual identity".