diatheses
- plural of diathesis.
Example Sentences
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Like seasons come round, and, like productiveness or unproductiveness, healthy or epidemic diatheses, attend them.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden
The question now arises: By what measures, or through what influences, if any, can such proneness to nervous diatheses be avoided?
From Insanity Its Causes and Prevention by Stearns, Henry Putnam
This explains why a frequent use of a vegetable diet offers appreciable advantages in the amelioration of arthritic diatheses so common amongst us.
From The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine by Daniel, Charles William
There exist the scrofulous, the phthisical, the gouty, the rheumatic diatheses, and, hence, the question of heredity is of the utmost importance in reference to many forms of disease.
From Insanity Its Causes and Prevention by Stearns, Henry Putnam
The following types of disease, as connected with the two diatheses, are included in the 2,351:— diseases of the locomotory system.
From Buxton and its Medicinal Waters by Gifford-Bennet, Robert Ottiwell
