Diathesis

//daɪˈæθəsɪs// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A hereditary or constitutional predisposition to a disease or other disorder. countable, uncountable

    "Medical materialism seems indeed a good appellation for the too simple-minded system of thought which we are considering. […] All such mental over-tensions, it says, are, when you come to the bottom of the matter, mere affairs of diathesis (auto-intoxications most probably), due to the perverted action of various glands which physiology will yet discover."

  2. 2
    constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormality wordnet
  3. 3
    Voice (active or passive). countable, uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin diathesis, from Ancient Greek διάθεσις (diáthesis, “state, condition”), from διατίθημι (diatíthēmi, “to arrange”).

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