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de·com·pen·sa·tion (d

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n-s

1. Medicine Failure of the heart to maintain adequate blood circulation, marked by labored breathing, engorged blood vessels, and edema.

2. Psychology The inability to maintain defense mechanisms in response to stress, resulting in personality disturbance or psychological imbalance.

de·compen·sate v.

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1,2) These hormones affect the cardiovascular and gastrointestinal systems in particular, with the former being life threatening because cardiac decompensation frequently occurs in longstanding thyrotoxicosis, even without any underlying cardiac disease.

Thyroid storm and ventricular tachycardia by Tai, Fang-Ting / Southern Medical Journal

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