diathesis

• While, therefore, a calculus is only as urine precipitated and solidified, and this fluid only as calculous matter suspended in a menstruum, it must appear that the lithic diathesis is as natural and universal as structural disintegration is constant and general in operation. —  Surgical Anatomy
• Fracture of the coronoid process becomes important principally as an evidence of the existence of a morbid diathesis, such as osteoporosis, or the like The particular seat of the injury, with its special features, will, of course, determine the treatment. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
• This state is called sthenic diathesis or disease. —  Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
• This state of asthenic diathesis is called indirect debility, because it is not produced by directly subtracting the powers which support life, but indirectly, by over stimulating. —  Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
• 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. —  Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease

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