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‖ diathesis|daɪˈæθɪsɪs|
Pl. diatheses |-iːz|.
[mod.L., a. Gr. διάθεσις disposition, state, condition, f. διατιθέναι to arrange, dispose.]
Med. A permanent (hereditary or acquired) condition of the body which renders it liable to certain special diseases or affections; a constitutional predisposition or tendency.
1681tr. Willis' Rem. Med. Wks. Vocab., Diathesis, the affection or disposition. 1727–51Chambers Cycl., Diathesis, a term used by some writers in the same sense with constitution. 1789A. Crawford in Med. Commun. II. 349 The..barytes is..calculated to correct the scrophulous diathesis. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 490 The epileptic diathesis which was the qualification of the Pythonesses of Delphi. 1885F. Warner Phys. 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. fig.
1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋236 An exotick Diathesis of corruption. 1861Maine Anc. Law ix. (1876) 340 Enormous influence on the intellectual diathesis of the modern world. 1874Blackie Self-Cult. 90 Practically, there is no surer test of a man's moral diathesis than the capacity of prayer. 1877F. Hall Eng. Adj. in -able 173 Helpless slaves of what a metaphysician might call the sequacious diathesis.
Hence diˌathesiˈsation, ‘the rendering general or systemic of an originally local disease; as the development into pyæmia of a simple abscess’. Syd. Soc. Lex. 1883. |