decompensation

[ dee-kom-puhn-sey-shuhn ]

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noun

Medicine/Medical. the inability of a diseased heart to compensate for its defect.
Psychology. a loss of ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.

decompensation

/ diːˌkɒmpɛnˈseɪʃən /

pathol inability of an organ, esp the heart, to maintain its function due to overload caused by a disease

First recorded in 1900–05; de- + compensation

And a decompensation occurred, which resulted in his putting on the suit of The Conservative.

Digitalis, when the cardiac tone is low and decompensation is present.

The natural end of patients in this group is either uremia or cardiac decompensation (so-called cardiorenal disease).

The terminal condition in most of the patients in this group is cardiac decompensation.

He had just returned from a hospital in another city, where he had gone with what was apparently cardiac decompensation.

It might be possible with this instrument to foretell an oncoming decompensation by the rise in venous pressure.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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