dyscrasia
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Etymology
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
Clinical Materia Medica,"~ third edition, page 141: "The various constitutions or dyscrasia underlying chronic and acute affections are, indeed, very numerous.
From Nature Cure by Lindlahr, Henry
As regards the relation of the syphilitic dyscrasia to neuralgia, I agree in general with Eulenburg.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.
So I sairched through me books for the thrue diathesis Of morbus dyscrasia tuburculous phthasis; And I boulsthered her up wid the shtrongest av tonics.
From The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Sanborn, Kate
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
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