metabolic alkalosis
Medicine
noun
A condition in which the alkali content of body fluids increases in relation to the acid content.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Science.
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- Caroline
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- Carolingian
- Carolingian Renaissance
- Carolinian
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- carol-singer
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- carotenoid
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