precipitance


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pre·cip·i·tan·cy

 (prĭ-sĭp′ĭ-tən-sē) also pre·cip·i·tance (-təns)
n.
1. The quality of being precipitant.
2. Action or thought marked by impulsiveness or rash haste.
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Noun1.precipitance - the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warningprecipitance - the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
precipitancy, precipitateness, suddenness, precipitousness, abruptness
haste, hastiness, hurriedness, hurry, precipitation - overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"
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precipitance

noun
Careless headlong action:
haste, hastiness, hurriedness, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, rashness, rush.
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precipitance

, precipitancy
n (= hastiness) → Hast f, → Eile f; (= overhastiness) → Voreiligkeit f, → Ãœberstürztheit f, → Ãœberstürzung f
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Bennet this morning, that if you ever resolved upon quitting Netherfield you should be gone in five minutes, you meant it to be a sort of panegyric, of compliment to yourself-- and yet what is there so very laudable in a precipitance which must leave very necessary business undone, and can be of no real advantage to yourself or anyone else?"
At least, therefore, I did not assume the character of needless precipitance merely to show off before the ladies."
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(4) FMD is another important disease concomitant with SCAD,[sup][24],[25],[26],[27],[28],[29] the prevalence of FMD ranged from 52% to 86% in SCAD patients.[sup][4],[7] FMD is a nonatherosclerotic and noninflammatory vascular disease, it tends to affect relatively large vessels such as renal, carotid artery, it can weaken artery structure through dysplasia of smooth muscle cells, fibroblasts, connective matrix, and prone to cause of artery stenosis, dissection, and aneurysm forming.[sup][30] However, in this study, there were no cases in the period of pregnancy or postpartum, no emotional or intensive exercise precipitance records and none of them had a history of connective tissue or autoimmune disease.
Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection as a Cause of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Young Female Population: A Single-center Study

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