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Uncompensated vs Decompensated - What's the difference?

uncompensated | decompensated |

As an adjective uncompensated

is not compensated; having no compensation.

As a verb decompensated is

past tense of decompensate.

uncompensated

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Not compensated; having no compensation.
  • Not paid for one's work.

    • Derived terms

    * uncompensated acidosis * uncompensated alkalosis

    decompensated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (decompensate)

    • decompensate

    English

    Verb

    (decompensat)
  • (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:
    • The infant whose heart is decompensating has a rapid pulse, rapid respirations, and respiratory distress.
  • * 1983 , Nancy Scheper-Hughes, "A Proposal for the Aftercare of Chronic Psychiatric Patients," Medical Anthropology Quarterly , vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 11-12:
    • 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.

    Related terms

    * decompensation