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HABITUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does habitus mean?
• HABITUS (noun)
The noun HABITUS has 2 senses:
1. person's predisposition to be affected by something (as a disease)
2. constitution of the human body
Familiarity information: HABITUS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Person's predisposition to be affected by something (as a disease)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Context example:
the consumptive habitus
Hypernyms ("habitus" is a kind of...):
predisposition; sensitivity (susceptibility to a pathogen)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Constitution of the human body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
body-build; build; habitus; physique
Hypernyms ("habitus" is a kind of...):
bodily property (an attribute of the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "habitus"):
lankiness (a tall and thin physique)
dumpiness; squattiness (a short and stout physique)
body type; somatotype (a category of physique)
Context examples
An anatomically narrow airway from body habitus or enlarged pharyngeal structures may also predispose to obstruction.
(Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
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