Definitions for diathesis

diathesis di·ath·e·sis

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

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

You can make 339 anagrams from letters in diathesis (adehiisst).

Definitions for diathesis

noun

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

Origin of diathesis

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

Examples for diathesis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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