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decompensation

/dee-kom-puhn-sey-shuhn/US // ˌdi kɒm pənˈseɪ ʃən //UK // (diːˌkɒmpɛnˈseɪʃən) //

失代偿,失调,减压,失代偿期

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

Examples

  • 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.