noun

• 1Medicine
  usually with modifier A tendency to suffer from a particular medical condition.

  ‘a bleeding diathesis’

  More example sentences

  • ‘These include arteriovenous shunts, giving rise to congestive heart failure, bleeding diathesis due to platelet consumption, and massive hemoperitoneum resulting in rupture.’
  • ‘In patients without a known allergic diathesis or infectious process, BCG without eosinophilia seems more enigmatic.’
  • ‘The 14% clinical gain observed in this study may be attributable to the expected proportion of 5-15% of H pylori positive patients with a true ulcer diathesis.’
  • ‘A lifelong bleeding diathesis may suggest a congenital platelet dysfunction, but an onset in adulthood does not necessarily exclude a congenital problem.’
  • ‘Hpylori eradication treatment, if successful, will be effective in curing the ulcer diathesis regardless of whether a patient is seen at the initial presentation of the disease or at a recurrence.’

• 2Linguistics
  

  another term for voice (sense 5 of the noun)