diathesis
noun
a constitutional predisposition or tendency, as to a particular disease or other abnormal state of the body or mind.
diatheses
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pluralof diathesis.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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 Charles William Daniel
He calls attention to the fact that the scrofulous and rachitic diatheses in childhood are sometimes accompanied by this disorder.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
On this point I am obliged to disagree in toto with the popular view that assigns these diatheses among the most frequent predisposing causes of neuralgia.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
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 Thomas Belden Butler
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 Henry Putnam Stearns
