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n. A hereditary predisposition of the body to a disease, a group of diseases, an allergy, or another disorder.

n. Grammar See voice.

n. A hereditary or constitutional predisposition to a disease or other disorder.

n. Voice (active or passive).

n. Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.

n. In medicine, a predisposing condition or habit of body; constitutional predisposition: as, a strumous or scrofulous diathesis.

n. A predisposing condition or state of mind; a mental tendency; hence, a predisposing condition or tendency in anything.

n. constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormality

"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."

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