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A factor which will increase the risk of disease. Influences that make a person susceptible to a particular medical condition.  

Having a tendency or susceptibility to a condition.  

Food which has undergone predigestion.  

To treat food with chemicals or enzymes so that it is more easily digested by people with digestion problems.  

Referring to prediction.  

An act of saying what you expect will happen in the future, or what is said.  

To say what will happen in the future.  

To the region of the chest over the heart (the precordium).  

The state or fact of being precocious. An acceleration of normal development The intellectually precocious child has a high IQ and may become isolated from his contemporaries or frustrated at school. Mental illness is less common than in those who develop normally. Premature development of physical or mental traits.  

The development of signs of puberty in girls before the age of seven, and in boys before the age of nine. If untreated, affected boys typically grow no taller than 1.6 metres and girls rarely reach 1.5 metres. Precocious puberty, also known as pubertas praecox, is an endocrine system disorder that results in the early…