What's the difference between dyscrasy and imbalance?
Dyscrasy
Definition:
(n.) Dycrasia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Papular mucinosis seems to be a systemic rather than a solely cutaneous disease and may be related to plasma-cell dyscrasis.
Imbalance
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
(2) The time for 90% of this change in VelCO2 to occur (T90) was measured as an index of the rate of correction of body CO2 imbalance.
(3) imbalance between production and elimination of heat, or to fever, i.e.
(4) Imbalances of peptide and dopamine cotransmission and their modulation by neuroleptics may be relevant to the pathogenesis and pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia.
(5) We have already had the failure of House of Lords reform, the failure to change constituencies and the imbalance of MPs between England and the devolved assemblies.
(6) The power of the landed elite is often cited as a major structural flaw in Pakistani politics – an imbalance that hinders education, social equality and good governance (there is no agricultural tax in Pakistan).
(7) Selection for treatment resulted in imbalance between the groups: the treated couples had a longer mean duration of infertility (48 vs. 36 months), and were more likely to have had a laparoscopy as part of the investigation (72% vs. 48%).
(8) Diplopia and asthenopia following retinal surgery are rare, despite relatively frequent muscular imbalance, because of: (a) suppresion (which war frequently found even in orthophorics with good postoperative vision in both eyes); (b) compensation owing to fusional power, and (c) probable role of the sensory factor for the compensation of the subjective experience of cyclotropia.
(9) Preeclampsia is associated with an imbalance between thromboxane and prostacyclin.
(10) Various etiologic factors reported in the medical literature are discussed and analyzed, and an anatomicophysiologic explanation of a possible mechanism, based on sympathetic-parasympathetic neurostimulatory imbalance, is offered.
(11) Therefore, treatment should be aimed at correcting the hormonal imbalance both at hypothalamico pituitary axis level and at the ovarian level rather than simple substitution therapy.
(12) The immunomodulatory effect was associated with the initial immune deficiency and manifested itself by higher relative and absolute T-lymphocyte contents along with elimination of their subpopulation imbalance.
(13) A technique is described which has reduced our incidence of vertical muscle imbalance and ptosis following intraocular surgery.
(14) The weakening of rosette-forming function of lymphocytes, a decrease in a mitogenic response to PHA, dysimmunoglobulinemia, imbalance in antibody production, particularly hyperproduction of cardial antibodies in rheumatic fever were observed as was marked delayed-type hypersensitivity to tissue antigens, more frequently to purified cardial antigens--to myocardial cell membranes and myosin.
(15) The patient's immune deviation is consistent with a transient imbalance of lymphokine production in helper T cells.
(16) Imbalance between the needs of the cell and the needs of the organism is proposed to be the general mechanism of chronic diseases.
(17) Removal of the ribs from one side produces an imbalance in the symmetric weight transmission through the ribs on the two sides.
(18) He understands from the perspective of Asia that there is a real supply-demand imbalance,” Forgacs said.
(19) These case reports demonstrate again that thrombocytopenia in Hodgkin's disease take place in active phases as well as in periods of complete remission; in the latter thrombocytopenia may reflect a part of immunological imbalance closely related to the pathophysiological background of Hodgkin's disease.
(20) In contrast, in advanced stages of late-onset DAT, this imbalance between oxygen and glucose utilization rates in the brain became smaller and smaller, and cerebral blood flow diminished markedly; these biological brain parameters finally all settled down at between 55% and 65% of the corresponding control values.