1) Ancient Greek medicine 2) Health problem 3) Ill health 4) Unhealthiness
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Dyscrasia (or dyskrasia) is a concept from ancient Greek medicine, meaning bad mixture. The concept of dyscrasia was developed by the Greek physician Galen (130–199 AD), who elaborated a model of health and disease as a structure of elements, qualities, humors, organs, and temperaments. Health was understood in this perspective to be a condition...
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A term formerly used to indicate an abnormal mixture of the four humours but in modern usage is roughly synonymous with 'disease' or 'pathologic condition'
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• (n.) An ill habit or state of the constitution; -- formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors.
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(Gr. dyskrasia bad temperament) 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'.
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Disease. Usually refers to diseases of the blood.
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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 ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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(dis-kra´zhә) a condition related to a disease or pathologic state, usually referring to an imbalance of component elements. adj., dyscrat´ic., adj. blood dyscrasia a pathologic condition of the blood, usually referring to a disorder of the cellular elements of the blood. ...
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A term formerly used to indicate an abnormal mixture of the four humours but in modern usage is roughly synonymous with 'disease' or 'pathologic condition'
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Illness as a result of abnormal material in the blood.
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Dys·cra'si·a noun [ New Latin
dyscrasia , from Greek
dyskrasi`a ;
dys- bad +
kra^sis mixture, from
keranny`nai to mix: confer French
dycrasie .]
(Medicine) An ill habit or state of the constitution; -- formerly regarded as depe...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: dis-krā′zē-ă Definitions: 1. A morbid general state resulting from the presence of abnormal material in the blood, usually applied to diseases affecting blood cells or platelets. 2. Old term indicating disease.
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Dyscrasia: Any disease condition, especially in hematology, as in 'blood dyscrasias.' The term 'dyscrasia' was borrowed from the Greek meaning 'a bad mixture' referring to imbalance between the four humors which caused disease.
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Presently a term referring to inadequate synthesis of blood proteins by the liver, especially clotting factors.
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n] - an abnormal or physiologically unbalanced state of the body
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dyscrasia, dyscrasial, dyscrasic 1. A depraved condition of the bodily system and especially of the blood, due to constitutional disease. 2. Generally bad health.
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noun an abnormal or physiologically unbalanced state of the body
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a malfunction or abnormal condition, esp. an imbalance of the constituents of the blood.
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