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Definition of Dyscrasia
1. Noun. An abnormal or physiologically unbalanced state of the body.
Definition of Dyscrasia
1. n. An ill habit or state of the constitution; -- formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors.
Definition of Dyscrasia
1. Noun. An unspecified disorder resulting from the presence of abnormal material in the blood. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dyscrasia
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Medical Definition of Dyscrasia
1. A term formerly used to indicate an abnormal mixture of the four humours, in surviving usages it now is roughly synonymous with disease or pathologic condition. Origin: Gr. Dyskrasia = bad temperament This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dyscrasia
Literary usage of Dyscrasia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures: A Textbook by Theodor Billroth (1890)
"Empirical Idea of Diathesis and dyscrasia.—General Symptomatology and Treatment of
... Tuberculous dyscrasia (Tuberculosis); 8. The Arthritic Diathesis ; 4. ..."
2. Lectures on Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics: A Handbook for Students and by Theodor Billroth (1878)
"Empirical conception of Diathesis and dyscrasia. ... The Tubercular
dyscrasia (Tuberculosis). 3. The Arthritic Diathesis. 4. The Scorbutic dyscrasia. 5. ..."
3. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1885)
"Basic Aural dyscrasia; being an inquiry into a condition of system disposing to
Aural Disease, now for the first time described as the Basic Aural dyscrasia ..."
4. Cellular pathology: As Based Upon Physiological and Pathological Histology by Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow, Franklin N. Chance (1860)
"Glandular secretion (liver).—Specific action of the elements of the tissues.
dyscrasia.—Its transitory character and local origin.—dyscrasia of drunkards. ..."
5. Cellular Pathology: As Based Upon Physiological and Pathological Histology by Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow, Frank Chance (1860)
"Glandular secretion (liver).—Specific action of the elements of the tissues.
dyscrasia.—Its transitory character and local origin.—dyscrasia of drunkards. ..."
6. A Manual of General Pathology: For the Use of Students and Practitioners of by Ernst Wagner (1876)
"Unit' ACID dyscrasia. 1 BARTELS. D. Arch. f. klin. med., 1805, I., p. ...
The existence of a so-called uric acid dyscrasia or diathesis is still doubtful. t ..."
7. Portfolio of Dermochromes by Jerome Kingsbury, William Gaynor States, Eduard Jacobi (1913)
"Arsenic and thyroid substance are two remedies which are believed to have some
specific virtues. That a severe blood dyscrasia is present seems to follow ..."
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