Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Abnormally high alkalinity of the blood and body fluids.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun abnormally high alkalinity in the blood and other body fluids.
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- noun An
abnormally increased alkalinity in theblood .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun abnormally high alkalinity (low hydrogen-ion concentration) of the blood and other body tissues
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Cardiovascular side effects have included fluid retention, sodium retention, congestive heart failure, potassium loss, hypokalemic alkalosis the most common metabolic abnormality resulting from vomiting and fluid loss.
Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Breast Cancer Chemotherapy: Everything You Wish You Didn't Need to Know Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011
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Cardiovascular side effects have included fluid retention, sodium retention, congestive heart failure, potassium loss, hypokalemic alkalosis the most common metabolic abnormality resulting from vomiting and fluid loss.
Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Breast Cancer Chemotherapy: Everything You Wish You Didn't Need to Know Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011
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Cardiovascular side effects have included fluid retention, sodium retention, congestive heart failure, potassium loss, hypokalemic alkalosis the most common metabolic abnormality resulting from vomiting and fluid loss.
Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Breast Cancer Chemotherapy: Everything You Wish You Didn't Need to Know Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011
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Cardiovascular side effects have included fluid retention, sodium retention, congestive heart failure, potassium loss, hypokalemic alkalosis the most common metabolic abnormality resulting from vomiting and fluid loss.
Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Breast Cancer Chemotherapy: Everything You Wish You Didn't Need to Know Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011
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Some of the more sensitive patients responded by having the acid levels in their blood go perilously low (and the alkali levels increase), called alkalosis.
Milk-Alkali Syndrome Steve Carper 2008
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Deficiency of potassium base foods in the diet increases the net systemic acid load of the diet, whether the deficiency is due to the acid load contributed by grain-based foods or by protein intake………Frassetto and his colleagues argue that any level of acidosis may be unacceptable from an evolutionary perspective and that a low-grade metabolic alkalosis may be the optimal acid/base state for humans…..
6-Week Cure blog idea | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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Most plant foods, other than grains, bring about the opposite metabolic situation; whereas meat consumption causes a metabolic acidosis, green leafy and colorful vegetables and low-glycemic fruits bring about a metabolic alkalosis.
Rebuttal to the PCRM | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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La base de ácido es cuando la concentración de hidrógeno en la plasma de sangre se mantiene a un nivel constante de 1: 20 (pH de sangre.) Se mide acidosis y alkalosis utilizando el factor de pH.
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See my articles on alkalosis and acidosis for possible remedies.
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Dr. Terry Durkes, one of the fathers of gold bead implantation for orthopedic disease, believes that a localized alkalosis in and around joints causes an inability of normal resorption and uptake of calcium as well as destabilizing the vertebrae.
The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003
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