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Est. 1828
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'compensatory'
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Words to Describe compensatory

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Things compensatory often describes ("compensatory ________")

  • hyperventilation
  • decrease
  • payment
  • programmes
  • process
  • increases
  • devices
  • actions
  • plan
  • measure
  • movements
  • curve
  • discrimination
  • efforts
  • award
  • responses
  • education
  • function
  • techniques
  • circulation
  • posture
  • activity
  • arrangements
  • allowance
  • patterns
  • skills
  • support
  • lengthening
  • policy
  • curves
  • program
  • enlargement
  • mechanism
  • vasoconstriction
  • action
  • pause
  • growth
  • benefits
  • model
  • policies
  • adaptation
  • increase
  • programs
  • emphysema
  • hypertrophy
  • strategies
  • financing
  • role
  • rise
  • reflexes
  • amounts
  • dilatation
  • change
  • measures
  • changes
  • tracking
  • finance
  • mechanisms
  • response
  • phenomenon
  • behavior
  • device
  • reaction
  • facility
  • schemes
  • payments
  • behaviors
  • hyperplasia
  • models
  • adjustment
  • effort
  • reactions
  • justice
  • alkalosis
  • damages
  • advantages
  • effects
  • strategy
  • tachycardia
  • processes
  • effect
  • spending
  • adjustments
  • duties
  • movement

How compensatory often is described ("________ compensatory")

  • vicarious
  • certain
  • integration
  • more
  • less
  • interactive
  • bottom
  • likely
  • large
  • very
  • individual

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