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diatheses

diatheses is the plural of diathesis.

Meaning of diathesis

Noun

diathesis (countable and uncountable, plural diatheses)

  1. A hereditary or constitutional predisposition to a disease or other disorder.
    • Medical materialism seems indeed a good appellation for the too simple-minded system of thought which we are considering. […] All such mental over-tensions, it says, are, when you come to the bottom of the matter, mere affairs of diathesis (auto-intoxications most probably), due to the perverted...1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC
  2. Voice (active or passive).

Questions about diatheses

What is diatheses the plural of?
Diatheses is the plural of diathesis.

Words near diatheses in the dictionary

  1. diathermies
  2. diathermocoagulation
  3. diathermocoagulations
  4. diathermous
  5. diathermy
  6. diatheses
  7. diathesis
  8. diathetic
  9. diatom
  10. diatomacean
  11. diatomaceous

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