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compensation
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: correction of an organic defect by excessive development or by increased functioning of another organ or unimpaired parts of the same organ <cardiac compensation>—see decompensation
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: a psychological mechanism by which feelings of inferiority, frustration, or failure in one field are counterbalanced by achievement in another
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