DECOMPENSATION
- The failure to generate effective psychological coping mechanisms in response to stress, resulting in personality disturbance or disintegration, esp. that which causes relapse in schizophrenia
- The failure of an organ (esp. the liver or heart) to compensate for the functional overload resulting from disease
- the failure of an organ to cope with increasing demands made on it owing to disease [n -S]
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