Diathesis

That the Greek describes object choices in terms of diathesis, meaning leanings/inclinations or bodily state or condition, and gnome, translated as will, inclination, and dispositions (164-65), further suggests that, at least in these instances, we may have more in common with the ❋ Unknown (2006)

Yes, Stephen had all the symptoms, what the doctors called the "diathesis," or look of consumption: nearly transparent skin, through which blue veins could be seen ticking, and a haggard face and a cavernous, wheezing chest. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A very principal object however is to understand the nature of predisposition, and the kind of diathesis, whether sthenic or asthenic, to which it inclines: this not only throws light on the nature of the disease, but affords us the only means of preventing it. ❋ Thomas Garnett (1784)

But what the doctors call a diathesis, a predisposition to some given disease, is most certainly heritable -- a fact which Karl Pearson and others have proved by statistics that can not be given here. [ ❋ Paul Popenoe (1933)

Bolstered over the past 15 years by numerous studies, this hypothesis, often called the “stress diathesis” or “genetic vulnerability” model, has come to saturate psychiatry and behavioral science. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Patients regularly using drugs (e.g. NSAIDs) that would increase the risk of hemorrhage, or patients with bleeding tendency or hemorrhagic diathesis. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A neurobiological diathesis similar to anxiety, specifically panic disorder, is a neurobiologically plausible mechanism to explain triggered reactions to ambient doses of environmental agents, real or perceived. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Is this sort of unintentional ? insult a legacy of past/distant worse inequities, or a possible diathesis for future ones? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Translated into English by G.C. Macaulay, M.A. {e Herodotou diathesis en apasin epieikes, kai tois men agathois sunedomene, tois de kakois sunalgousa}. — ❋ Herodotus (2003)

‘Well,’ said Reardon, musing cheerfully, ‘I shall never become a drunkard; I haven’t that diathesis, to use your expression. ❋ Unknown (2003)

In his first comments on Lysias 'speech, Socrates says he admired its manner (diathesis) but not its matter, thus establishing a distinction between form and con - tent which soon became a commonplace in rhetorical theory (Phaedrus 236a). ❋ G. M. A. GRUBE (1968)

How far physiologists may deem that such an abnormal circumstance may have been influential in producing a diathesis of mind and body deficient in vigor, energy and ❋ Various (N/A)

Blood cultures from the general circulation being always sterile in these experiments, it would seem that under the conditions of the furuncular diathesis, the minute parasite does not exist in the blood. ❋ Various (N/A)

I am convinced that if, in cases of furuncular diathesis, not merely a few drops but several grams of blood from the general circulation could be placed under cultivation frequent successful growths would be obtained. ❋ Various (N/A)

In truth, Aunt Judy took as much prophylactic pains with my soul as if it had been tainted with a congenital sulphuric diathesis; and if I had sunk under a complication of profane disorders, no postmortem statement of my spiritual pathology would have been complete and exact which failed to take note of her stringent preventive measures. ❋ Various (N/A)

The insane temperament and its pathological twin brother, the neuropathic diathesis, roams at large unrestrained from without or that self-restraint which, bred of adequate self-knowledge, might come from within, and contaminates with neurotic and mental instability the innocent unborn, furnishing histogenic factors which the future will formulate in minds dethroned to become helpless wards of the state or family. ❋ Various (N/A)

The carbonaceous deposit seems to supersede or supplant the formation of other morbid bodies in the substance of the lungs -- such as tubercle; for in individuals belonging to families in which there exists an undoubted phthisical diathesis, tubercle is never found on dissection. ❋ Archibald Makellar (N/A)