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(medicine) A hereditary or constitutional predisposition to a disease or other disorder. / (grammar) Voice (active or passive).

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diathesis

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diathesis

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/daɪˈaθəsɪs/

Noun

countable uncountable

(medicine) A hereditary or constitutional predisposition to a disease or other disorder. / (grammar) Voice (active or passive).

Japanese Meaning

（医学）疾患や他の異常に対する先天的または体質的な素因 / （文法）能動態や受動態など、動作や状態の表現形式

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The physician noted that the patient's diathesis made them more susceptible to recurrent infections.

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医師は、患者の遺伝的素因が再発性の感染症を起こしやすくしていると指摘した。

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(medicine) 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 action of various glands which physiology will yet discover.

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(grammar) Voice (active or passive).

diatheses

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