n. An unspecified disorder resulting from the presence of abnormal material in the blood.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. An ill habit or state of the constitution; -- formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. In pathology, a generally faulty condition of the body; morbid diathesis; distemper. Also dyscrase, dyscrasy, and formerly discrase, discrasy.
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n. an abnormal or physiologically unbalanced state of the body
Word Usage
"After inactivation of the diphtheria poison, or in other words after the detoxication of the body fluids by the addition of diphtheria antitoxin, the dyscrasia is overcome; in its place appears, so to say, a eucrasia."