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Definition of Blood dyscrasia

1. Noun. Any abnormal condition of the blood.

Medical Definition of Blood dyscrasia

1. A general term which is used to describe any abnormality in the blood or bone marrow's cellular components, such as low white blood cell count, low red blood cell count or low platelet count. Medications known to cause thrombocytopenia or leukopenia as a side effect include: pyrimethamine, chloramphenicol, levamisole, sulphamethoxazole and trimethoprim, sulphapyridine, sulphasalazine, antihistamines, appetite suppressants, anticonvulsants, tricyclic antidepressants, decongestants and antihistamines, benzodiazepines, chloroquine, clozapine, dapsone, glutethimide, hydroxychloroquine, isoniazid, meprobamate and aspirin, methazolamide, perphenazine and amitriptyline, phenacemide, pimozide, rifampin, thioxanthenes, trimethobenzamide, trimethoprim and trimetaphan. (27 Sep 1997)

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Literary usage of Blood dyscrasia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Portfolio of Dermochromes by Jerome Kingsbury, William Gaynor States, Eduard Jacobi (1913)
"That a severe blood dyscrasia is present seems to follow from the favorable results of transfusion in severe cases. Local treatment is hardly mentioned by ..."

2. An introduction to pathology and morbid anatomy by Thomas Henry Green (1881)
"... of the blood as secondary to local causes, would appear of themselves to be sufficient to render untenable the hypothesis of a primary blood dyscrasia. ..."

3. Lectures on renal & urinary diseases by Robert Saundby (1896)
"... maintained the view that Bright's disease is a consequence of the blood dyscrasia resulting from suppression of the respiratory function of the skin. ..."

4. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1893)
"... activity of a parasite that thrives at the expense of the red^ cell,—a condition that may be designated a morphologic blood-dyscrasia; (2) to a process ..."

5. Lectures on Bright's Disease by Robert Saundby (1889)
"... maintains the view that Bright's disease is a consequence of the blood dyscrasia resulting from suppression of the respiratory function of the skin. ..."

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