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predisease

predisease adjective: of or relating to a predisease (such as prediabetes or prehypertension), as with predisease states or predisease stage.

Adjective

predisease (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to a predisease (such as prediabetes or prehypertension), as with predisease states or predisease stage.
  2. Before a disease began, as with predisease cognitive performance as a baseline in dementia or predisease motor function as a baseline in multiple sclerosis.

Noun

predisease (plural prediseases)

  1. A condition, albeit consisting of only one or two signs, that is identifiable as, or believed to be, a subclinical prelude to a disease, with greatly increased predisposition thereto (for example, prediabetes or prehypertension); the operational definition of such a state or the clinical value of asserting it may be contentious (as with purported preobesity).
    • When the goal of preventing adverse health outcomes is kept in mind, this review poses the idea that "predisease" as a category on which to act makes sense only if the following 3 conditions are met. First, the people designated as having predisease must be far more likely to develop disease than...2011, Anthony J. Viera, “Predisease: when does it make sense?”, in Epidemiologic Reviews, volume 33, number 1, →DOI, →PMID, pages 122–134
    • Nowadays, it suggests more of a kind of 'proto-professionalization': the internalization of professional attitudes towards one's own body and acting as a kind of 'proto-professional' in cases of the treatment of a predisease.2010, Michiel Korthals, Genomics, Obesity and the Struggle over Responsibilities

Forms of predisease

Adjective
alternative formpre-disease
Noun
pluralprediseases

Origin of predisease

From pre- + disease.

Questions about predisease

What does predisease mean?
Predisease means of or relating to a predisease (such as prediabetes or prehypertension), as with predisease states or predisease stage.
What part of speech is predisease?
Predisease can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near predisease in the dictionary

  1. prediscuss
  2. prediscussed
  3. prediscusses
  4. prediscussing
  5. prediscussion
  6. predisease
  7. prediseases
  8. predismissal
  9. predisordered
  10. predispense
  11. predispensed

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