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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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
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
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 Kate Sanborn
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
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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