Taxonomy vs Decompensate - What's the difference?
taxonomy | decompensate |
The science or the technique used to make a classification.
A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
(taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
(medicine, psychology, of a bodily organ or mental state) To deteriorate in function due to an inability to invoke normal defensive mechanisms that compensate for ailments and other stresses.
* 1967 , Virginia Pidgeon, "The Infant with Congenital Heart Disease," The American Journal of Nursing , vol. 67, no. 2, p. 291:
* 1983 , Nancy Scheper-Hughes, "A Proposal for the Aftercare of Chronic Psychiatric Patients," Medical Anthropology Quarterly , vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 11-12:
As a noun taxonomy
is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As a verb decompensate is
to deteriorate in function due to an inability to invoke normal defensive mechanisms that compensate for ailments and other stresses.taxonomy
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(wikipedia taxonomy)Noun
(taxonomies)Synonyms
* alpha taxonomyDerived terms
* folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomySee also
* classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontologydecompensate
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Verb
(decompensat)- The infant whose heart is decompensating has a rapid pulse, rapid respirations, and respiratory distress.
- In some cases, the fragile individual, overwhelmed by the implicit demands and expectations for sociability, coherence, and "constructive" behavior, rapidly decompensates , taking flight into psychosis or protective withdrawal.