| predicant | Predicating; affirming; declaring; proclaiming; hence; preaching. "The Roman predicant orders." Origin: L. Praedicans, -antis, p. Pr. Of praedicare. See Predicate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| predicrotic | <physiology> A term applied to the pulse wave sometimes seen in a pulse curve or sphygmogram, between the apex of the curve and the dicrotic wave. "The predicrotic or tidal wave is best marked in a hard pulse, i. E, where the blood pressure is high." (Landois & Stirling) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| predictive validity | Criterion-related validity used to predict performance in a real-life task at a future time. See: construct validity, criterion-related validity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| predictive value | An expresion of the likelihood that a given test result correlates with the presence or absence of disease. A positive predictive value is the ratio of patients with the disease who test positive to the entire population of individuals with a positive test result; a negative predictive value is the ratio of patients without the disease who test negative to the entire population of individuals with a negative test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| predictive value of tests | In screening and diagnostic tests, the probability that a person with a positive test is a true positive (i.e., has the disease), is referred to as the predictive value of a positive test; whereas, the predictive value of a negative test is the probability that the person with a negative test does not have the disease. Predictive value is related to the sensitivity and specificity of the test. (12 Dec 1998) |
| predigest | <medicine> To subject (food) to predigestion or artificial digestion. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| predigestion | 1. Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion. 2. <medicine> Artificial digestion of food for use in illness or impaired digestion. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| predisponent | Disposing beforehand; predisposing. That which predisposes. Predisponent causes. <medicine> See Predisposing causes, under Predispose. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| predispose | 1. To dispose or incline beforehand; to give a predisposition or bias to; as, to predispose the mind to friendship. 2. To make fit or susceptible beforehand; to give a tendency to; as, debility predisposes the body to disease. <medicine> Predisposing causes, causes which render the body liable to disease; predisponent causes. Origin: Pref. Pre- + dispose: cf. F. Predisposer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| predisposing cause | Anything that produces a susceptibility or disposition to a condition without actually causing it. (05 Mar 2000) |
| predisposing factors | Attitudinal, personality, and related factors that motivate and guide an individual to take certain health actions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| predisposition | A latent susceptibility to disease which may be activated under certain conditions, as by stress. Origin: L. Disponere = to dispose (18 Nov 1997) |
| predisposition analysis | <genetics> The analysis of how some people are more likely to get certain diseases as a result of their genetic make-up. (31 Dec 1997) |
| prediverticular disease of colon | <radiology> Longitudinal and circular muscle thickening with redundancy of folds secondary to myostatic contracture findings: saw tooth sign: crowding and thickening of haustral folds (shortening of colonic segments), superimposed muscle spasm (relieved by antispasmodics) Differential diagnosis: hemmorhage; ischemia; radiation; pseudomembranous colitis see: divericular disease of colon (12 Dec 1998) |
| prednimustine | <chemical> Ester of chlorambucil and prednisolone used as a combination alkylating agent and synthetic steroid to treat various leukaemias and other neoplasms. It causes gastrointestinal and bone marrow toxicity. Pharmacological action: antineoplastic agent, alkylating. Chemical name: Pregna-1,4-diene-3,20-dione, 21-(4-(4-(bis(2-chloroethyl)amino)phenyl)-1-oxobutoxy)-11,17-dihydroxy-, (11beta)- (12 Dec 1998) |