ACIDEMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acidemia mean? 

• ACIDEMIA (noun)
  The noun ACIDEMIA has 1 sense:

1. a blood disorder characterized by an increased concentration of hydrogen ions in the blood (which falls below 7 on the pH scale)

  Familiarity information: ACIDEMIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACIDEMIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A blood disorder characterized by an increased concentration of hydrogen ions in the blood (which falls below 7 on the pH scale)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("acidemia" is a kind of...):

blood disease; blood disorder (a disease or disorder of the blood)

 Context examples 

Mutation of propionyl-CoA carboxylase has been observed to cause a genetic condition called propionic acidemia.

(Oxidation of Odd-Numbered Chain Fatty Acid Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Researchers have discovered that a hormone, fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), is extremely elevated in mice with liver disease that mimics the same condition in patients with methylmalonic acidemia (MMA), a serious genomic disorder.

(Elevated hormone flags liver problems in mice with methylmalonic acidemia, National Institutes of Health)