ACIDOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acidosis mean? 

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

1. abnormally high acidity (excess hydrogen-ion concentration) of the blood and other body tissues

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACIDOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abnormally high acidity (excess hydrogen-ion concentration) of the blood and other body tissues

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acidosis"):

diabetic acidosis; ketoacidosis (acidosis with an accumulation of ketone bodies; occurs primarily in diabetes mellitus)

metabolic acidosis (acidosis and bicarbonate concentration in the body fluids resulting either from the accumulation of acids or the abnormal loss of bases from the body (as in diarrhea or renal disease))

carbon dioxide acidosis; respiratory acidosis (acidosis resulting from reduced gas exchange in the lungs (as in emphysema or pneumonia); excess carbon dioxide combines with water to form carbonic acid which increases the acidity of the blood)

starvation acidosis (acidosis in which the acidity results from lack of food which leads to fat catabolism which in turn releases acidic ketone bodies)

Derivation:

acidotic (having or being characterized by acidosis)

 Context examples 

Metabolic acidosis characterized by the accumulation of lactate in the body.

(Lactic Acidosis, NCI Thesaurus)

It results in metabolic acidosis, hypoglycemia, and behavioral changes.

(Glutaric Acidemia Type 2, NCI Thesaurus)

Expression of the GLS2 gene is induced during acidosis.

(GLS2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes.

(MELAS Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Metformin is associated with a very low incidence of lactic acidosis.

(Metformin, NCI Thesaurus)

It presents with hypoglycemia, failure to thrive, metabolic acidosis, muscle weakness, and hepatomegaly.

(Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

Phenformin is not used clinically due to the high risk of lactic acidosis that is associated with its use.

(Phenformin, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical presentations include congenital abnormalities, hepatomegaly, metabolic acidosis, and hypotonia.

(Multiple Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

This receptor represents an osteoblastic pH sensor regulating cell-mediated responses to acidosis in bone.

(G Protein-Coupled Receptor 68, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of metabolic acidosis produced by accumulation of ketone bodies resulting from uncontrolled diabetes mellitus.

(Diabetic Ketoacidosis, Food and Drug Administration)