diathesisn.

/dʌɪˈaθɪsɪs/

Forms: Plural diatheses /-iːz/.

Etymology: modern Latin, < Greek διάθεσις disposition, state, condition, < διατιθέναι to arrange, dispose.

a. Medicine. A permanent (hereditary or acquired) condition of the body which renders it liable to certain special diseases or affections; a constitutional predisposition or tendency.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > susceptibility to disease

predisposition1622

diathesis1681

miasm1833

vulnerability1881

1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Diathesis, the affection or disposition.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Diathesis, a Term used by some Writers, in the same Sense with Constitution.

1789 A. Crawford in Med. Communications 2 349 The..barytes is..calculated to correct the scrophulous diathesis.

1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vii. xxv. 490 The epileptic diathesis which was the qualification of the Pythonesses of Delphi.

1885 F. Warner Physical Expression xvi. 275 The tendencies in the development of a child or adult may be studied by determining the diathesis, as it is called.

b. figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > [noun] > tendency

diathesis1651

1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋236 An exotick Diathesis of corruption.

1861 H. S. Maine Anc. Law ix. 340 Enormous influence on the intellectual diathesis of the modern world.

1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 90 Practically, there is no surer test of a man's moral diathesis than the capacity of prayer.

1877 F. Hall Eng. Adj. in -able 173 Helpless slaves of what a metaphysician might call the sequacious diathesis.

Derivatives

diˌathesiˈsation n. ‘the rendering general or systemic of an originally local disease; as the development into pyæmia of a simple abscess’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon, 1883).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	diathesis
释义	diathesisn. /dʌɪˈaθɪsɪs/ Forms: Plural diatheses /-iːz/. Etymology: modern Latin, < Greek διάθεσις disposition, state, condition, < διατιθέναι to arrange, dispose. a. Medicine. A permanent (hereditary or acquired) condition of the body which renders it liable to certain special diseases or affections; a constitutional predisposition or tendency. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > susceptibility to disease predisposition1622 diathesis1681 miasm1833 vulnerability1881 1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Diathesis, the affection or disposition. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Diathesis, a Term used by some Writers, in the same Sense with Constitution. 1789 A. Crawford in Med. Communications 2 349 The..barytes is..calculated to correct the scrophulous diathesis. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vii. xxv. 490 The epileptic diathesis which was the qualification of the Pythonesses of Delphi. 1885 F. Warner Physical Expression xvi. 275 The tendencies in the development of a child or adult may be studied by determining the diathesis, as it is called. b. figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > [noun] > tendency diathesis1651 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋236 An exotick Diathesis of corruption. 1861 H. S. Maine Anc. Law ix. 340 Enormous influence on the intellectual diathesis of the modern world. 1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 90 Practically, there is no surer test of a man's moral diathesis than the capacity of prayer. 1877 F. Hall Eng. Adj. in -able 173 Helpless slaves of what a metaphysician might call the sequacious diathesis. Derivatives . diˌathesiˈsation n. ‘the rendering general or systemic of an originally local disease; as the development into pyæmia of a simple abscess’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon, 1883). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1651
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