Condition
The term 'condition' has a number of biomedical meanings including the following:</P> > >An unhealthy state, such as in 'this is a progressive condition.' >A state of fitness, such as 'getting into condition.' >Something that is essential to the occurrence of something else; essentially a 'precondition.' >As a verb: to cause a change in something so that a response that was previously associated with a certain stimulus becomes associated with another stimulus; to condition a person, as in behavioral conditioning.
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