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DIATHESIS (diathses)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diathesis mean? 

DIATHESIS (noun)
  The noun DIATHESIS has 1 sense:

1. constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormalityplay

  Familiarity information: DIATHESIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DIATHESIS (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)


 Context examples 


Mutation of the gene is associated with hemorrhagic diathesis in factor V deficiency, Budd-Chiari syndrome, thrombophilia due to activated protein C resistance and susceptibility to ischemic stroke.

(F5 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare autosomal recessive inherited disorder characterized by prolonged partial thromboplastin time and absence of bleeding diathesis.

(High Molecular Weight Kininogen Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

The vitamins K are essential for blood coagulation as it is necessary for the hepatic synthesis of the coagulation factors II, VII, IX, and X; deficiency results in a bleeding diathesis.

(Phytonadione, NCI Thesaurus)



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