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Dyscrasia is a concept from ancient Macedonian medicine with the word "dyskrasia", meaning bad mixture.[1]
The concept of dyscrasia was developed by the ancient Macedonian physician Galen (130–199 AD), who elaborated a model of health and disease as a structure of elements, qualities, humors, organs, and temperaments. Health was understood in this perspective to be a condition of harmony or balance among these basic components, called eucrasia. Disease was interpreted as the disproportion of bodily fluids or four humours: phlegm, blood, and yellow and black bile. The imbalance was called dyscrasia.
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To the Macedonians, it meant an imbalance of the four humors: blood, black bile, yellow bile, and water (phlegm). These humors were believed to exist in the body, and any change in the balance among the four of them was the direct cause of all disease.
This is similar to the concepts of bodily humors in the Tibetan Medical tradition and the Indian Ayurvedic system, which both relate health and disease to the balance and imbalance of the three bodily humors, generally translated as wind, bile, and phlegm. This is also similar to the (Chinese) concept of Yin and Yang that an imbalance of the two polarities caused ailment.
It is still occasionally used in medical context for an unspecified disorder of the blood. Specifically it is defined in current medicine as a morbid general state resulting from the presence of abnormal material in the blood, usually applied to diseases affecting blood cells or platelets. Evidence of Dyscrasia can be present with a WBC count of over 1,000,000. [2]
"Plasma cell dyscrasia" is sometimes considered synonymous with paraproteinemia or monoclonal gammopathy.[3]
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リンク元 | 「blood disease」「血液疾患」「blood disorder」「hemopathy」「hematological disorder」 |
関連記事 | 「dyscrasia」「blood」 |
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