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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /daɪˈaθəsɪs/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /daɪˈæθəsɪs/

名詞

diathesis (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 diatheses)

1. (medicine) A hereditary or constitutional predisposition to a disease or other disorder.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture I:

     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.

   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 611:

     When a coal miner developed the eye disease nystagmus, was this to be diagnosed as due to work conditions or to an inherent constitutional diathesis?

2. (grammar) Voice (active または passive).

派生語

• phosphatic diathesis

アナグラム

• histidase