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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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 Anstie, Francis E.
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
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
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
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
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