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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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
If any dyscrasia, such as excessive heat, coldness, dryness or moisture appears in the wound and delays its healing, it is to be met by its contrary.
From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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
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
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
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