diathesis

diathesis
[dʌɪˈaθəsɪs]
noun
  1. [usu. with modifier](Medicine)a tendency to suffer from a particular medical condition
    (医)素质
    a bleeding diathesis.
    出血素质。
  2. (Linguistics)the set of syntactic patterns with which a verb or other word is most typically associated
    (语言学)态
语源
  1. mid 17th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek, disposition', from diatithenai 'arrange'. Sense 2 dates from the mid 20th cent
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