Weakened vs Decompensation - What's the difference?
weakened | decompensation |
Reduced, made less strong.
(weaken)
(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 an adjective weakened
is reduced, made less strong.As a verb weakened
is (weaken).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.weakened
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His weakened immune system couldn't cope with the infection.
Verb
(head)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 .