dys- +
(Greek: bad, harsh, wrong; ill; hard to, difficult at; slow of; disordered; impaired, defective)
dysbasia
1. Difficulty in walking, including excessively fast steps (tachybasia), or very small steps (brachybasia).
2. Difficulty in walking, especially as the result of a disorder of the nervous system.
3. Difficulty in or distortion of walking which occurs in people with mental disorders.
dysbasis
Any form of difficult or distorted walking, whether organically or psychically determined.
dysboulia
1. The inability to fix one’s attention; difficulty experienced in thinking; mind weariness.
2. Weak and uncertain willpower.
dyscalculia
Disability with respect to using mathematics.
Although this disorder is common, it is poorly understood.
dyscalligynia
Antipathy for, or hatred of, beautiful women.
dyscephaly, dyscephalia
Malformation of the head and facial bones.
dyscheiria, dyschiria
1. The inability to tell which side of the body has been touched.
2. A disorder of sensibility in which, although there is no apparent loss of sensation, the patient is unable to tell which side of the body has been touched (acheiria), or refers it to the wrong side (allocheiria), or to both sides (syncheiria).
dyscheirography, dyschirography
A handwriting disorder which usually reflects a mental or physical disease.
dyschezia
Painful or difficult bowel movements.
dyschiasia
Difficulty in localizing sensory stimuli.
dyschroa, dyschoroia
1. Discolored skin; especially, of the face.
2. Poor or bad complexion.
dyschromasia
Any deficiency in perception of color.
dyschromatopsia, dyschromatopsy, dyschromatoptic
1. Deranged vision of colors; color blindness.
2. Disorder of color vision; imperfect color vision.
dyschromia, dyschromatous
1. Discoloration, as of the skin or fingernails and toenails.
2. Any abnormality of skin color.
dyschronous
Not agreeing as to time; separate as to time.
Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "bad, wrong":
caco-, kako-;
mal-;
mis-;
pessim-;
sceler-.
Cross references directly, or indirectly, involving "slow, slowness, slow of, sluggish":
lent-;
tard-.
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