An abnormal or disease state of the body, especially an imbalance of blood components or a systemic constitutional disorder.
Greek-origin variant spelling of dyscrase, used more commonly in modern medicine to describe blood disorders and systemic diseases.
When a hematologist talks about a dyscrasia, they might mean a leukemia or lymphoma—basically a situation where blood cells are going wrong and messing up the whole system, which is serious because blood touches every organ.
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