diathesis

American  

[dahy-ath-uh-sis] / daɪˈæθ ə sɪs /

noun

• diatheses
  plural

1. Pathology. a constitutional predisposition or tendency, as to a particular disease or other abnormal state of the body or mind.

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diathesis British  

/ daɪˈæθɪsɪs /

noun

1. a hereditary or acquired susceptibility of the body to one or more diseases

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• diathetic
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• diatheses
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of diathesis

1645–55; < New Latin < Greek diáthesis arrangement, disposition. See dia-, thesis

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Example Sentences

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diathesis diatheses

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

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 Michael F. Guyer

Thus it often happens that at the very time when a man of rheumatic diathesis is in finest form, he is suddenly laid prostrate by the return of his foe.

From Turkish and Other Baths A Guide to Good Health and Longevity by Gordon Stables

Never had we seen such an exemplification of their incurious, impassible diathesis as they now presented to our cost.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

One most striking expression of nutritive degeneracy is hæmophilia or the diathesis of the “bleeders.”

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot

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

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

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

Certain effects observed in these diatheses arise from the purins, from their localisation in the system, and their vitiated metabolism.

From The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine by Charles William Daniel

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

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