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discompensação (in this context)

English translation: decompensation

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Portuguese term or phrase:	discompensação (in this context)
English translation:	decompensation
Entered by:	Alyson Steele Weickert, Ph.D.

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13:29 Oct 21, 2008

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Medical - Medical: Dentistry

Portuguese term or phrase: discompensação (in this context)

And this term please, a dictionary translation entry I found - arrhythmia - does not seem appropriate here.
Thank you.

O sistema mastigatório é um elemento regulador ou perturbador do sistema postural, assim o desequilíbrio induzido por uma disfunção da articulação temporomandibular pode levar a uma descompensação do sistema postural assim como o desequilíbrio do sistema postural altera o sistema mastigatório4

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decompensation

Explanation:
What is postural decompensation?
The distribution of body mass away from the ideal when postural homeostatic mechanisms are overwhelmed. ...
www.drfeely.com/osteopathy/osteopathy_faq.htm - 21k

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Adaptation, compensation, and decompensation of the pharyngeal swallow

***Adaptation, Compensation, Decompensation of Pharyngeal Swallow. ***

OF TONGUE:. COMPENSATION .... may afford relief by allowing the postural muscles ...
www.springerlink.com/index/E73726X6Q3873RJ1.pdf -

Foundations for Osteopathic Medicine - Google Books Resultby Robert C. Ward, Raymond J. Hruby, John A ... - 2002 - Medical - 1472 pages
If compensatory mechanisms are overwhelmed, treatment of
*** postural decompensation *** should include some combination of the following: 1 . ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0781734975...

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kZHk444tr8wC&pg=PA612&lpg...