Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hereditary predisposition of the body to a disease, a group of diseases, an allergy, or another disorder.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, a predisposing condition or habit of body; constitutional predisposition: as, a strumous or scrofulous diathesis.
- noun A predisposing condition or state of mind; a mental tendency; hence, a predisposing condition or tendency in anything.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine A
hereditary orconstitutional predisposition to adisease or otherdisorder . - noun grammar
Voice (active orpassive ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormality
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word diathesis.
Examples
-
That the Greek describes object choices in terms of diathesis, meaning leanings/inclinations or bodily state or condition, and gnome, translated as will, inclination, and dispositions (164-65), further suggests that, at least in these instances, we may have more in common with the
The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006
-
Yes, Stephen had all the symptoms, what the doctors called the "diathesis," or look of consumption: nearly transparent skin, through which blue veins could be seen ticking, and a haggard face and a cavernous, wheezing chest.
-
A very principal object however is to understand the nature of predisposition, and the kind of diathesis, whether sthenic or asthenic, to which it inclines: this not only throws light on the nature of the disease, but affords us the only means of preventing it.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784
-
But what the doctors call a diathesis, a predisposition to some given disease, is most certainly heritable -- a fact which Karl Pearson and others have proved by statistics that can not be given here. [
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
-
Bolstered over the past 15 years by numerous studies, this hypothesis, often called the “stress diathesis” or “genetic vulnerability” model, has come to saturate psychiatry and behavioral science.
-
Bolstered over the past 15 years by numerous studies, this hypothesis, often called the “stress diathesis” or “genetic vulnerability” model, has come to saturate psychiatry and behavioral science.
-
Bolstered over the past 15 years by numerous studies, this hypothesis, often called the “stress diathesis” or “genetic vulnerability” model, has come to saturate psychiatry and behavioral science.
-
Patients regularly using drugs (e.g. NSAIDs) that would increase the risk of hemorrhage, or patients with bleeding tendency or hemorrhagic diathesis.
-
A neurobiological diathesis similar to anxiety, specifically panic disorder, is a neurobiologically plausible mechanism to explain triggered reactions to ambient doses of environmental agents, real or perceived.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Professors and Intelligent Design: 2007
-
Is this sort of unintentional ? insult a legacy of past/distant worse inequities, or a possible diathesis for future ones?
vermontster commented on the word diathesis
Diathesis-Stress Model. We love models.
June 28, 2008