Category: D

  • Dyscorticism

    Malfunction of adrenal gland shell (cortex).  

  • Dyscholia

    Disorder of the bile.  

  • Dyschiria

    Inability to tell which side of body has been touched. Inability to tell which side of the body has been touched. If the sensation is referred to the wrong side, it is called allochiria, or allesthesia. If referred to both sides, it is called synchiria.  

  • Dyschiasia

    Disordered localization sense.  

  • Dyschezia

    Difficult or painful evacuation of feces. Difficulty in passing stools, usually from long-continued, voluntary suppression of the urge to defecate. A form of constipation resulting from a long period of voluntary suppression of the urge to defecate. The rectum becomes distended with feces and bowel movements are difficult or painful. Constipation due to retention of…

  • Dyscephaly

    Malformation of skull and facial bones.  

  • Dysbulia

    Weakness of the will. Any disturbance of the will or of the mental processes that lead to purposeful action.  

  • Dysbolism

    Disturbed metabolism, the physical and chemical processes by which the body uses substances.  

  • Dysbasia

    Difficulty in walking, especially when caused by a lesion to a nerve.  

  • Dysbarism

    Due to difference in pressures between atmosphere arid internal body gases. Any disorder caused by differences between the atmospheric pressure outside the body and the pressure inside. Any clinical syndrome due to a difference between the atmospheric pressure outside the body and the pressure of air or gas within a body cavity (such as the…