Wikidiffcom vs Decompensate - What's the difference?
wikidiffcom | decompensate |
(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 verb decompensate is
(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.wikidiffcom
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English
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.