Diathesis

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Diathesis \Di*ath"e*sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to place
     separately, arrange; dia` through, asunder + ? to place,
     put.] (Med.)
     Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which
     predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  diathesis
       n : constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or
           abnormality
       [also: {diathses} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  132 Moby Thesaurus words for "diathesis":
     Altmann theory, DNA, De Vries theory, Galtonian theory,
     Mendelianism, Mendelism, RNA, Verworn theory, Weismann theory,
     Weismannism, Wiesner theory, a thing for, affinity, allele,
     allelomorph, animus, aptitude, aptness, bent, bias, birth,
     body-build, brand, cast, character, characteristic,
     characteristics, chromatid, chromatin, chromosome, complexion,
     composition, conatus, conduciveness, constituents, constitution,
     crasis, delight, determinant, determiner, dharma, disposition,
     eagerness, eccentricity, endowment, ethos, eugenics, factor,
     feeling for, fiber, frame, gene, genesiology, genetic code,
     genetics, genius, grain, habit, hereditability, heredity,
     heritability, heritage, hue, humor, humors, idiosyncrasy, ilk,
     inborn capacity, inclination, individualism, inheritability,
     inheritance, kidney, kind, leaning, liability, liking, make,
     makeup, matrocliny, mental set, mettle, mind, mind-set, mold,
     nature, patrocliny, penchant, pharmacogenetics, physique,
     predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, probability,
     proclivity, proneness, propensity, property, quality, readiness,
     recessive character, replication, sensitivity to, set, slant,
     soft spot, somatotype, sort, spirit, stamp, strain, streak, stripe,
     suchness, susceptibility, system, temper, temperament, tendency,
     tenor, tone, tropism, turn, turn of mind, twist, type, vein, warp,
     way, weakness, willingness