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acidosis
Sign in to saveAcidosis is a biological process producing hydrogen ions and increasing their concentration in blood or body fluids. pH is the negative log of hydrogen ion concentration and so it is decreased by a process of acidosis.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- symptom or sign
- Subclass of
- hematopoietic system disease
- Image
- Symptoms of acidosis.svg
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- health specialty
- endocrinology
- ICPC 2 ID
- T99
- opposite of
- alkalosis
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C83504
- ICD-9-CM
- 276.2
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0001941
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Acidemia
- Signs and symptoms
- Metabolic acidosis
- Treatment
- Fetal metabolic acidemia
- Respiratory acidosis
- Fetal respiratory acidemia
- See also
- References
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Acidosis is a biological process producing hydrogen ions and increasing their concentration in blood or body fluids. pH is the negative log of hydrogen ion concentration and so it is decreased by a process of acidosis.
== Acidemia == The term acidemia describes the state of low blood pH, when arterial pH falls below 7.35 (except in the fetus – see below) while acidosis is used to describe the processes leading to these states. The use of acidosis for a low pH creates an ambiguity in its meaning. The difference is important where a patient has factors causing both acidosis and alkalosis, wherein the relative severity of both determines whether the result is a high, low, or normal pH.
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