Crossword clues for acidosis
The Collaborative International Dictionary
acidosis \acidosis\ n. 1. abnormally high acidity of the blood and other body fluids.
Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) An abnormally increased acidity of the blood.
WordNet
n. abnormally high acidity (excess hydrogen-ion concentration) of the blood and other body tissues
Wikipedia
Acidosis is an increased acidity in the blood and other body tissue (i.e. an increased hydrogen ion concentration). If not further qualified, it usually refers to acidity of the blood plasma.
Acidosis is said to occur when arterial pH falls below 7.35 (except in the fetus - see below), while its counterpart ( alkalosis) occurs at a pH over 7.45. Arterial blood gas analysis and other tests are required to separate the main causes.
The term acidemia describes the state of low blood pH, while acidosis is used to describe the processes leading to these states. Nevertheless, the terms are sometimes used interchangeably. The distinction may be relevant where a patient has factors causing both acidosis and alkalosis, wherein the relative severity of both determines whether the result is a high or a low pH.
The rate of cellular metabolic activity affects and, at the same time, is affected by the pH of the body fluids. In mammals, the normal pH of arterial blood lies between 7.35 and 7.50 depending on the species (e.g. healthy human-arterial blood pH varies between 7.35 and 7.45). Blood pH values compatible with life in mammals are limited to a pH range between 6.8 and 7.8. Changes in the pH of arterial blood (and therefore the extracellular fluid) outside this range result in irreversible cell damage.
Usage examples of "acidosis".
Her heart sank even further when she realized that the prolonged anoxia had caused a severe metabolic acidosis as well.
In the left-hand column is a list of diseases beginning with acidosis and running through neurosis and on to ulcers, and in the right-hand column are lists of wines that will remedy the diseases on the left.
A good dose of sugar, or more carbon dioxide, will increase the acidosis enough to put you right.
For example, an anion gap on the electrolyte panel combined with metabolic acidosis on arterial blood gases would prompt an inquiry into ASA, methanol, or ethylene glycol as potential etiologic agents.
A man on Venus, unless equipped with special breathing apparatus and oxygen tanks, would die of acidosis within a few minutes.
Her heart sank even further when she realized that the prolonged anoxia had caused a severe metabolic acidosis as well.
If a man has metabolic acidosis-- any kind of acidosis-- what does he do?