Definitions for diatheses

diatheses di·ath·e·sis

Spelling: [dahy-ath-uh-sis]
IPA: /daɪˈæθ ə sɪs/

Diatheses is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 378 anagrams from letters in diatheses (adeehisst).

Definitions for diatheses

noun

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

Origin of diatheses

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

Examples for diatheses

The nutritive system becomes implicated, and patients are especially prone to develop any diathesis to which they may be liable.

Clancy was an American with an Irish diathesis and cosmopolitan proclivities.

It is probably connected with a diathesis—the arthritic—which may be inherited or acquired.

The ancients called it the strumous, and the more recent writers the scrofulous or tuberculous, diathesis.

In observing the weather, however, as in the diagnosis of disease, the diathesis is all-important.

If this diathesis be undoubtedly present, the operation should be avoided.

This diathesis is produced by those agencies which deprave the blood and waste vitality.

The same conditions also appear in the diathesis of the “bleeders.”

Milk can convey no disease or diathesis except on account of its deficiency in nutritive properties.

diathesis, dī-ath′e-sis, n. a particular condition or habit of body, esp.

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