HYPOVOLEMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hypovolemia mean? 

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

1. a blood disorder consisting of a decrease in the volume of circulating blood

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPOVOLEMIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A blood disorder consisting of a decrease in the volume of circulating blood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

hypovolaemia; hypovolemia

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

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

Antonym:

hypervolemia (a blood disorder consisting of an increase in the volume of circulating blood)

Derivation:

hypovolemic (of or relating to a decrease in the volume of circulating blood)

 Context examples 

An electrocardiographic finding of supraventricular tachycardia involving the sinus node in which a patient has an atypically high heart rate which cannot be explained by factors such as fever, exercise, hypovolemia, etc.

(Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus)