dyscrasia
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Origin of dyscrasia
1350–1400; Middle English; < Medieval Latin < Greek dyskrasía bad mixture, equivalent to dys- dys- + krâs ( is ) a mixing + -ia -ia
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Let that child be vaccinated, and let the syphilitic dyscrasia afterward break forth.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
This form of mental dyscrasia is much more frequent than people suppose, and the antecedents of shop-lifters and the like should be carefully examined before a judgment on their criminality is passed.
From Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire by James Weir
He attributes the simultaneous occurrence of these conditions to some blood dyscrasia, uric acid, or the like, affecting the two most used sets of muscles and organs, the legs and the vocal cords.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
The dyscrasia may also represent modifications in the relative proportion of the normal constituents of the blood.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
But the most interesting consideration that we have to deal with is the question of the supposed relations of the rheumatic and the gouty diatheses, and the syphilitic dyscrasia, to the neuralgic tendency.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
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