Meaning & use
blood dyscrasia
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Meaning
nouncountablemedical
Any abnormal condition of the blood, such as a problem with its cells, clotting or makeup.
Grammar: Used in medicine as a broad group name: a blood dyscrasia, several blood dyscrasias.
Patterns
- a blood dyscrasia caused by something
- blood dyscrasia in someone
The doctor suspected a blood dyscrasia after the unusual test results.
Some medicines can trigger a serious blood dyscrasia in rare cases.
Patients with a blood dyscrasia are monitored with regular blood tests.
Word forms
| plural | blood dyscrasias |
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Common combinations
- drug-induced blood dyscrasia
- A drug-induced blood dyscrasia was listed as a possible side effect.
- diagnose a blood dyscrasia
- Doctors diagnosed a blood dyscrasia from the lab work.
- history of blood dyscrasia
- He has a history of blood dyscrasia in his family.
- rule out a blood dyscrasia
- Tests were done to rule out a blood dyscrasia.
- serious blood dyscrasia
- A serious blood dyscrasia needs urgent care.
Synonyms and how they differ
- blood disorder
- Blood disorder is the plain-language term that the public uses, while blood dyscrasia is the formal clinical label.
- hematologic disease
- Hematologic disease is the specialist wording and can name a specific illness, which dyscrasia does not.
Word family
- dyscrasia noun
- an abnormal bodily state, especially of blood
- dyscratic adjective
- relating to dyscrasia
- hematology noun
- the study of blood and its diseases
Commonly confused: blood dyscrasia or dyslexia?
blood dyscrasia vs dyslexia
Dyslexia is a reading difficulty and is unrelated to blood, even though both words begin with dys-.
Practice
What does blood dyscrasia refer to?
Choose one answer.
Blood dyscrasia is a broad medical label for any disordered state of the blood. The other options describe tests, normal changes or surgery.
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