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Diathesis

noun

(pl. diatheses)

Constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormality.

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"Diathesis" Quotes from Famous Books

... but expressive of virility, seems to be a very plastic quantity, so that motor regimen and exercise at this stage is probably more important and all-conditioning for mentality, sexuality, and health than at any other period of life. Intensity, and for a time a spurty diathesis, is as instinctive and desirable as are the copious minor automatisms which spontaneously give the alphabet out of which complex and finer motor series are later spelled by the conscious will. Mercier and others have pointed out that, ...

— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall

... solution of Unity in any part the ambient air . . . repleted with various evaporations or aporrhoeas of mixt bodies, especially such as are then suffering the act of putrefaction, violently invadeth the part and thereupon impresseth an exotic miasm or noxious diathesis, which disposeth the blood successively arriving at the wound, to putrefaction, by the intervention of fermentation." With his magnetic sympathy, Van Helmont expressed clearly the doctrine of immunity and the cure of disease by immune sera: "For he who has ...

— The Evolution of Modern Medicine • William Osler

Words linked to "Diathesis" : sensitivity, predisposition