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Constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormality
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diathesis
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Wikipedia
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In medicine and allied fields, diathesis (from Greek διάθεσις) is a hereditary or constitutional predisposition to a disease or other disorder. Atopic diathesis is a predisposition to develop one or more of hay fever , allergic rhinitis , bronchial asthma ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context medicine English) A hereditary or constitutional predisposition to a disease or other disorder. 2 (context grammar English) voice (active or passive).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diathesis \Di*ath"e*sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to place separately, arrange; dia` through, asunder + ? to place, put.] (Med.) Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormality [also: diathses (pl)]
Usage examples of diathesis.
Cousins mentions an individual of hemorrhagic diathesis who succumbed to extensive extravasation of blood at the base of the brain, following a slight fall during an epileptic convulsion.
Dunlape reports a case of hemorrhagic diathesis, following suppression of the catamenia, attended by vicarious hemorrhage from the gums, which terminated fatally.
BAYLEY'S LITHIA WATER, cures Bright's disease and the gouty diathesis.