S vs Decompensation - What's the difference?
s | decompensation |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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(medicine) The inability of a diseased or weakened organic system or organ to compensate for its deficiency, resulting in functional deterioration.
* 1982 , Pamela Martyn, "If You Guessed Cardiovascular Disease, Guess again," American Journal of Nursing , vol. 82, no. 8, p. 1239:
(psychology) The deterioration of cognitive or emotional functionality in a person who is distressed or who suffers from a psychological disorder.
* 1945 , William C. Menninger, "The Mentally or Emotionally Handicapped Veteran," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science , vol. 239 (May), p. 21:
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun decompensation is
(medicine) the inability of a diseased or weakened organic system or organ to compensate for its deficiency, resulting in functional deterioration.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}decompensation
English
(wikipedia decompensation)Noun
(en noun)- Once it was determined that hyperthyroidism was the probable etiology of her cardiac decompensation , the next step was treatment of the underlying disease.
- A varying percentage of our combat soldiers reach the limit of their endurance and must leave their foxholes, not for physical wounds but because of emotional decompensation .