dyscrasia
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noun
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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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Inflammatory complications are usually due to undue traumatism at the time of the inoculation, to injury of the pock, or to the previous existence of a cutaneous disease or of some dyscrasia.
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
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 Henry Lindlahr
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 may result from constitutional dyscrasia, or may be associated with a defective blood supply, as when the nutrient artery is injured.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
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