decompensationn.
Medicine.
A state or condition of having lost compensation (sense 1c), spec., as in cardiac decompensation, circulatory decompensation, a failure of the heart to maintain adequate circulation, after a period of compensation.
ΚΠ
1905 G. M. Gould Dict. New Med. Terms 208/1.
1938 H. A. Christian Osler's Princ. & Pract. Med. (ed. 13) 1037 Sooner or later irremediable decompensation will come.
1953 Faber Med. Dict. 114/1 Cardiac or circulatory decompensation.
1961 Lancet 19 Aug. 429/1 Patients with enlarged hearts, cardiac decompensation, and diabetes.
Derivatives
deˈcompensated adj.
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1938 H. A. Christian Osler's Princ. & Pract. Med. (ed. 13) 1037 Treatment of the Permanently Decompensated Cardiac.
1961 Lancet 5 Aug. 314/2 We considered they had died from decompensated hypertensive cardiac failure.
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