Definition of diathesis in English:
diathesis
nounPlural diatheses dʌɪˈaθəsɪsdaɪˈæθəsəs
1Medicine
usually with modifier A tendency to suffer from a particular medical condition.
Example sentencesExamples
- A lifelong bleeding diathesis may suggest a congenital platelet dysfunction, but an onset in adulthood does not necessarily exclude a congenital problem.
- In patients without a known allergic diathesis or infectious process, BCG without eosinophilia seems more enigmatic.
- The 14% clinical gain observed in this study may be attributable to the expected proportion of 5-15% of H pylori positive patients with a true ulcer diathesis.
- Hpylori eradication treatment, if successful, will be effective in curing the ulcer diathesis regardless of whether a patient is seen at the initial presentation of the disease or at a recurrence.
- These include arteriovenous shunts, giving rise to congestive heart failure, bleeding diathesis due to platelet consumption, and massive hemoperitoneum resulting in rupture.
2Linguistics
The set of syntactic patterns with which a verb or other word is most typically associated.
Origin
Mid 17th century: modern Latin, from Greek, 'disposition', from diatithenai 'arrange'. sense 2 dates from the mid 20th century.