Predisease

Quick meaning: Predisease is an adjective meaning Of or relating to a predisease (such as prediabetes or prehypertension), as with predisease states or predisease stage.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Before a disease began, as with predisease cognitive performance as a baseline in dementia or predisease motor function as a baseline in multiple sclerosis.
2. (medicine) 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).

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

• pre-disease
• prediseases

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include predormal, prediagnostic, prodromal, prediagnosis, predispositional, premutation.

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