diathesis
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Origin of diathesis
1645–55; < New Latin < Greek diáthesis arrangement, disposition. See dia-, thesis
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In this model, diathesis represents an individual's genetic predilections; which are mightily affected by other factors, often stress-inducing, in the individual's environment.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2017
Undoubtedly many of the cases of sudden death under chloroform and ether in children and young persons are due to the existence of this lymphatic diathesis.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
The term insanity is merely a loose descriptive one, and we shall gain little definite knowledge about the inheritance of such maladies until we study each separate insane diathesis specifically.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Guyer, Michael F.
Thus each of the three personages receives the proper specific for his case; Christ divines the treatment that every particular diathesis requires.
From Pastor Pastorum by Latham, Rev. Henry
They are not pathognomonic of any one malady, although often referred to the gouty diathesis.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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
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 Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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 Anstie, Francis E.
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
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