English-Thai Dictionary
diathesis
N ภาวะ ติดโรค ได้ ง่าย
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
DIATHESIS
Di *ath "e *sis, n. Etym: [NL. , fr. Gr. (Med. )
Defn: Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.
New American Oxford Dictionary
diathesis
di ath e sis |dīˈaTHəsis daɪˈæθəsəs | ▶noun 1 [ usu. with modifier ] Medicine a tendency to suffer from a particular medical condition: a bleeding diathesis. 2 Linguistics another term for voice ( sense 4 of the noun ). ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek, ‘disposition, ’ from diatithenai ‘arrange. ’ Sense 2 dates from the mid 20th cent.
Oxford Dictionary
diathesis
diathesis |dʌɪˈaθəsɪs | ▶noun ( pl. diatheses |-siːz | ) 1 [ usu. with modifier ] Medicine a tendency to suffer from a particular medical condition: a bleeding diathesis. 2 Linguistics the set of syntactic patterns with which a verb or other word is most typically associated. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek, ‘disposition ’, from diatithenai ‘arrange ’. Sense 2 dates from the mid 20th cent.
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