DIATHESIS
\dˈa͡ɪəθəsˌɪs], \dˈaɪəθəsˌɪs], \d_ˈaɪ_ə_θ_ə_s_ˌɪ_s]\
Definitions of DIATHESIS
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A constitution or condition of the body which makes the tissues react in special ways to certain extrinsic stimuli and thus tends to make the individual more than usually susceptible to certain diseases.
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A constitutional state predisposing to any disease or group of diseases.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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Particular habit of body, predisposing to certain diseases.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In med., a particular state or disposition of body, predisposing to certain diseases.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A congenital predisposition to some class of diseases or type of development.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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from ('to place,') 'I dispose.' Disposition, constitution, affection of the body; predisposition to certain diseases rather than to others; - (F.) Imminence morbide. The principal diatheses, mentioned by authors, are the cancerous, scrofulous, scorbutic, rheumatic, gouty and calculous.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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