BLOOD DYSCRASIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blood dyscrasia mean? 

• BLOOD DYSCRASIA (noun)
  The noun BLOOD DYSCRASIA has 1 sense:

1. any abnormal condition of the blood

  Familiarity information: BLOOD DYSCRASIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOOD DYSCRASIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any abnormal condition of the blood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("blood dyscrasia" is a kind of...):

dyscrasia (an abnormal or physiologically unbalanced state of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blood dyscrasia"):

blood disease; blood disorder (a disease or disorder of the blood)

 Context examples 

It may cause blood dyscrasias, therefore, this agent was only used after other less toxic anticonvulsants had failed.

(Mephenytoin, NCI Thesaurus)

Common causes include trauma due to accidents, insect or reptile bites, severe cold exposure or pathological conditions such as infarctions or blood dyscrasias.

(Ischemic necrosis, NCI Thesaurus)