decompensation
Medicine/Medical. the inability of a diseased heart to compensate for its defect.
Psychology. a loss of ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
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How to use decompensation in a sentence
And a decompensation occurred, which resulted in his putting on the suit of The Conservative.
Digitalis, when the cardiac tone is low and decompensation is present.
Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: | Louis Marshall WarfieldThe natural end of patients in this group is either uremia or cardiac decompensation (so-called cardiorenal disease).
Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: | Louis Marshall WarfieldThe terminal condition in most of the patients in this group is cardiac decompensation.
Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: | Louis Marshall WarfieldHe had just returned from a hospital in another city, where he had gone with what was apparently cardiac decompensation.
Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: | Louis Marshall Warfield
It might be possible with this instrument to foretell an oncoming decompensation by the rise in venous pressure.
Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: | Louis Marshall Warfield
British Dictionary definitions for decompensation
/ (diːˌkɒmpɛnˈseɪʃən) /
pathol inability of an organ, esp the heart, to maintain its function due to overload caused by a disease
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