Relating to or affected by dyscrasy; characterized by an abnormal mixture or imbalance of bodily elements.
Derived from dyscrasy with the adjectival suffix -ic. It maintains the medical connotation of dyscrasy while functioning as a modifier to describe conditions, temperaments, or individuals affected by such imbalances.
This adjective kept the old four-humors medicine alive in medical vocabulary for centuries, even after doctors figured out what really made people sick. Words like this are linguistic fossils that tell us how medicine evolved.
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