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Definition of Decompensate
1. Verb. (medicine psychology of a bodily organ or mental state) To deteriorate in function due to an inability to invoke normal defensive mechanisms that compensate for ailments and other stresses. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decompensate
1. [v -SATED, -SATING, -SATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decompensate
Literary usage of Decompensate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ill-Equipped: U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness by Sasha Abramsky (2003)
"564 In Oregon, many of the mentally ill prisoners housed in the prisons' Intensive
Management Units decompensate and are then sent to the psychiatric ..."
2. Assessment and Treatment of Patients With Coexisting Mental Illness and by Richard Ries (1996)
"Without case management, many severely ill patients would decompensate, need to
be hospitalized, or become homeless. The case management model identifies ..."
3. Community Corrections in America: New Directions & Sounder Investments for edited by Arthur J. Lurigio (1999)
"... may decompensate and have to be hospitalized on a very small amount of marijuana
whereas another may be able to remain in the community while consuming ..."
4. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"Cough, if it keeps the patient from sound sleep, and often it does just this, is
an added burden to a heart already beginning to decompensate. ..."
5. Clinical Cardiology by Selian Neuhof (1917)
"Extreme caution in advising marriage is, of course, necessary because of the
known tendency of patients with auricular fibrillation to decompensate. ..."
6. Schizophrenia, 1993: A Special Report edited by David Shore, Samuel J. Keith (1996)
"... in schizophrenia and brain to decompensate under stress programmed in the
second and the later onset of typical clinical and the influence of additional ..."
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