What's the difference between diathesis and disorder?
Diathesis
Definition:
(n.) Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.
Example Sentences:
(1) The post-mortem examination revealed that in sixteen animals there was equally expressed hemorrhagic diathesis, five of which had clinical icterus, five manifested subclinical icterus, and six showed no icterus.
(2) An otherwise healthy woman developed a hemorrhagic diathesis with fluctuating clinical symptoms and laboratory findings, but without thrombocytopenia, over 8 years.
(3) There was a linear correlation between thrombopenia and the presence of hemorrhagic diathesis and low levels of C4 and CH50 components.
(4) He was admitted to hospital with a severe haemorrhagic diathesis which, at first, was thought to be a familial haemorrhagic disease, his mother having died of recurrent hypoprothrombinaemia a few years earlier, the cause of her bleeding trouble never having been established.
(5) The patient displayed the typical features of APL including impaction of the marrow with promyelocytes, marked elevation of the serum vitamin B12 and transcobalamin I levels and a hemorrhagic diathesis.
(6) Total gastrectomy was performed in 8 of the 12 Z-E patients, with abolition of the ulcer diathesis in all.
(7) These functional abnormalities may well be related to posttraumatic hemorrhage as observed in a 33-yr-old man with moderate hemorrhagic diathesis related to injuries since his early adolescence.
(8) A dysfibrinogenemia (fibrinogen Sevilla) was detected in a 64-yr-old woman with no previous history of hemorrhagic diathesis or thrombosis.
(9) Adenosine is a potent inhibitor of the enzyme ATPase and, in this way, contributes to the anemia, the bleeding diathesis and the CNS symptoms of uremia.
(10) Such an approach provides the basis for developing broader, yet more specific, frameworks for investigating diathesis-stress theories of psychopathology in general and of depression in particular.
(11) A clinical classification is proposed, based on severity of the bleeding diathesis and platelet count at presentation.
(12) The main results and problems of research work on this haemorrhagic diathesis are shortly reviewed.
(13) After transfusion of stroma-free haemoglobin preparation, no signs of haemorrhagic diathesis were observed.
(14) Neonatal intracerebral hemorrhage should raise the question of congenital tumor because such a hemorrhage in this age group is rarely the result of trauma, bleeding diathesis, or vascular malformation.
(15) In the severely bleeding patient with hemorrhagic diathesis heparin is contraindicated because it does not normalize coagulability.
(16) By the mid 20th century, however, the apparent decline of the gout in Europe and North America and the breakup of the gouty diathesis in those lands had been more than compensated by their large-scale reappearance in the Maori and in other indigenous inhabitants of the Pacific Basin who, at first sight, appeared to have become one large gouty family.
(17) Based on literature and on the results of this open clinical trial we conclude, that there is no connection between application of the above named group of drugs and the change in parameters of haemostasis function, which might lead to a manifest haemorrhagic diathesis.
(18) Vitamin K deficient hemorrhagic diathesis is well known as a cause of infantile intracranial hemorrhage.
(19) A familial diathesis seems to exist for VD, following a dominant mode of inheritance.
(20) These findings provide further evidence that disseminated intravascular coagulation and enhanced fibrinolysis in the late stages of schistosomiasis may contribute to the haemorrhagic diathesis seen in the liver and spleen.
Disorder
Definition:
(n.) Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.
(n.) Neglect of order or system; irregularity.
(n.) Breach of public order; disturbance of the peace of society; tumult.
(n.) Disturbance of the functions of the animal economy of the soul; sickness; derangement.
(v. t.) To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse.
(v. t.) To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to disorder the head or stomach.
(v. t.) To depose from holy orders.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings are more consistent with those in studies of panic disorder.
(2) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
(3) Hypothyroidism complicated by spontaneous hyperthyroidism is an interesting but rare occurrence in the spectrum of autoimmune thyroid disorders.
(4) Diseases of the gastric musculature, including the inflammatory and endocrine myopathies, muscular dystrophies, and infiltrative disorders, can result in significant gastroparesis.
(5) The serum concentration of hyaluronan (HYA) was determined in 59 patients with various myeloproliferative disorders, including 33 patients with idiopathic myelofibrosis.
(6) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
(7) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
(8) Periodontal diseases are a collection of disorders that may affect patients throughout life.
(9) The study examined the sustained effects of methylphenidate on reading performance in a sample of 42 boys, aged 8 to 11, with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
(10) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
(11) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
(12) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
(13) Infusion of sodium lactate associated with isoproterenol could be used to combat the depressent effects of betablockers in patients with cardiac disorders.
(14) The review provides an update of drug-induced pulmonary disorders, focusing on newer agents whose effects on the lung have been studied recently.
(15) Hypercalcitoninemia was the most pronounced in patients with cardiac rhythm disorders and a simultaneous reduction in total serum calcium.
(16) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.
(17) We present a 40-year-old woman with manifestations of all three disorders.
(18) Osteogenesis imperfecta is the common term for a heterogeneous group of heritable disorders of connective tissue with lethal and nonlethal forms.
(19) What constitutes a "mental disorder" for purposes of the insanity defense?
(20) A 68 year-old man with a history of right thalamic hemorrhage demonstrated radiologically in the pulvinar and posterior portion of the dorsomedian nucleus developed a clinical picture of severe physical sequelae associated with major affective, behavioral and psychic disorders.