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  • noun Plural form of precipitant.

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Examples

  • But occasionally, there are precipitants that make the examination more urgent, and we are red-flagged.

    Toxic Venting: When to Stop Listening 2011

  • Owing to its family-systems origins, as well as the popularity of behavioral methods such as contracting and communications training, couples therapy has been unique in that shifts in behavior tend to be sought as the precipitants of fundamental change, as opposed to insight or fresh emotional experience: The agoraphobic wife is “cured” when her husband instructs her that she dare not leave the house.

    THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB LAURIE ABRAHAM 2010

  • She identified the goals of crisis intervention: relief of symptoms, restoration of precrisis functioning, understanding of precipitants, and identification of remedial measures.

    Lydia Rapoport. 2009

  • And they said there "might be no difference between the inflammatory or catabolic stress of vaccinations and that of common childhood diseases, which are known precipitants of mitochondrial regression."

    David Kirby: Top US Panel: Some Vaccine-Autism Research is "Appropriate," "Worthwhile" and "Warranted" 2009

  • No wonder, then, that the authors themselves conclude that "there might be no difference between the inflammatory or catabolic stress of vaccinations and that of common childhood diseases, which are known precipitants of mitochondrial regression."

    David Kirby: NEW STUDY - "Mitochondrial Autism" is Real; Vaccine Triggers Cannot Be Ruled Out 2008

  • The court apparently made the decision that it was fair to say that the vaccines may have been one of the precipitants of symptoms in this child with a genetic disorder but that's nothing so to say about the thousands and thousands and thousands of children that need immunizations day after day after day.

    CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2008 2008

  • The court apparently made the decision that it was fair to say that the vaccines may have been one of the precipitants of symptoms in this child with the genetic disorder, but that has nothing to say about the thousands and thousands and thousands of children that need immunization day after day after day.

    CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2008 2008

  • Hour-long program separated into eight short clips for the web including one called "The Search for Answers" on precipitants and neurobiology of anorexia.

    Eating Disorders Sandra K 2007

  • Hour-long program separated into eight short clips for the web including one called "The Search for Answers" on precipitants and neurobiology of anorexia.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Sandra K 2007

  • Again, fatigue and rising losses were precipitants, but crewmen began questioning the military value of the targets they were recently attacking—cloud-covered cities, particularly Berlin, where the bombing seemed to be without clear plan or purpose.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

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