DIATHESIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: diathses   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("diathesis" is a kind of...):

predisposition; sensitivity (susceptibility to a pathogen)

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