Definition of acidosis in English:
acidosis
noun ˌasɪˈdəʊsɪsˌæsəˈdoʊsəs
mass nounMedicine An excessively acid condition of the body fluids or tissues.
Example sentencesExamples
- The urine ketone dip test was highly sensitive for diabetic ketoacidosis and diabetic ketosis with or without acidosis.
- Lactic acidosis, rhabdomyolysis, and multiple organ dysfunction syndromes can complicate this disease.
- Illnesses include ailments resulting from mineral deposition caused by acidosis, arthritis, and arteriosclerosis.
- She had the respiratory distress and metabolic acidosis of severe malaria, and needed blood urgently.
- Arterial blood gas analysis should be performed to exclude hypoxia and acidosis as contributors to pulmonary hypertension.
Derivatives
adjective ˌasɪˈdɒtɪk
Medicine Patients with severe falciparum malaria are acidotic and compensate by hyperventilation.
Example sentencesExamples
- At age 26 months he was referred to the department of gastroenterology, and by then was severely malnourished, hypokalaemic, and acidotic.
- Peripheral rewarming can be associated with shock, acidosis and hyperkalemia when cold, acidotic peripheral blood is returned centrally.
- Over the next eight days, the patient's condition continued to decline as she became more acidotic, her urine output diminished, her mental status fluctuated, and her abdomen became grossly distended and tympanic.
- On admission, the patient was acidotic, and he rapidly became comatose.
Definition of acidosis in US English:
acidosis
nounˌasəˈdōsəsˌæsəˈdoʊsəs
Medicine An excessively acid condition of the body fluids or tissues.
Example sentencesExamples
- She had the respiratory distress and metabolic acidosis of severe malaria, and needed blood urgently.
- The urine ketone dip test was highly sensitive for diabetic ketoacidosis and diabetic ketosis with or without acidosis.
- Arterial blood gas analysis should be performed to exclude hypoxia and acidosis as contributors to pulmonary hypertension.
- Illnesses include ailments resulting from mineral deposition caused by acidosis, arthritis, and arteriosclerosis.
- Lactic acidosis, rhabdomyolysis, and multiple organ dysfunction syndromes can complicate this disease.