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Definitionn. susceptibility to a pathogen
Last update: October 15, 2015
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In the first place, the so-called internal causes of disease is probably a mere phrase covering our ignorance of the factors at work, and although a certain convenience attaches to the distinction between those cases where tender breeds of plants apparently exhibit internal predisposition to suffer more readily than others from parasites, low temperatures, excessive growth, &c.as is the case with some grafted plants, cultivated hybrids, &c.the mystery involved in the phrase internal causes only exists until we find what action of the living or nonliving environment of the essential mechanism of the plant has upset its equilibrium. [Please select]
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The perplexed phantom that had been moving down the natural declivity of resurrected predisposition, fell away. [Please select]
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_--Bilroth taught that tumors are caused by a peculiar predisposition consisting of a diseased state of the fluids of the body. [Please select]
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A long catalogue could be given of all sorts of inherited malformations and of predisposition to various diseases. [Please select]
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It must be admitted, however, that this is influenced in return by the predisposition existing in the germ. [Please select]
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Given that a man is naturally industrious, does this happy predisposition protect him from fits of idleness. [Please select]
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The spectator, by this means, was drawn into a predisposition of its excellence, without knowing whence it had arisen. [Please select]
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