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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An abnormal increase in the acidity of the body's fluids, caused either by accumulation of acids or by depletion of bicarbonates.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Poisoning by certain acids, such as uric acid or the fatty acids, formed within the body under various morbid conditions, such as cancer, diabetes, or fever. Also called acid intoxication.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun abnormally high acidity of the blood and other body fluids.

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  • noun pathology An abnormally increased acidity of the blood.

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  • noun abnormally high acidity (excess hydrogen-ion concentration) of the blood and other body tissues

Etymologies

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From acid +‎ -osis

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Examples

  • Renal tubular acidosis is an important potential contributor to poor growth in Alagille syndrome.

    The Kidneys and Alagille Syndrome 2009

  • Iron enters cells and acts as a mitochondrial poison. 1 The resultant metabolic acidosis is secondary to an increased anaerobic metabolism, lactic acidosis and shock.

    Iron Poisoning 2010

  • Too much acid in the blood called acidosis causes proteins to lose their shape; this renders them useless.

    Fire Up Your Metabolism Lyssie Lakatos 2004

  • When these disturb the acid/alkali balance of the body by making it more acidic than normal a condition called acidosis, the gastric secretions will contain more than the normal amount of acid.

    THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003

  • The result was that the sugar content of the blood of the patient fell to the normal, the passing of sugar into the urine was reduced to a minimum, and the general state of poisoning, acidosis, which is caused by certain injurious substances which are formed in this kind of diabetes mainly through disturbance in the fat metabolism, often in great quantities, was checked.

    Physiology or Medicine 1923 - Presentation Speech 1965

  • Your water ionizer has the ability to turn ordinary tap water into water with the ability to effectively counter the three most probable causes of sickness, chronic disease and premature aging; (1) high acidity levels in the body, technically called acidosis, (2) damaging run away free radical activity and (3) body dehydration.

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  • Your water ionizer has the ability to turn ordinary tap water into water with the ability to effectively counter the three most probable causes of sickness, chronic disease and premature aging; (1) high acidity levels in the body, technically called acidosis, (2) damaging run away free radical activity and (3) body dehydration.

    WN.com - Articles related to Some states easing laws on liquor tastings 2010

  • Your water ionizer has the ability to turn ordinary tap water into water with the ability to effectively counter the three most probable causes of sickness, chronic disease and premature aging; (1) high acidity levels in the body, technically called acidosis, (2) damaging run away free radical activity and (3) body dehydration.

    WN.com - Articles related to Some states easing laws on liquor tastings 2010

  • Your water ionizer has the ability to turn ordinary tap water into water with the ability to effectively counter the three most probable causes of sickness, chronic disease and premature aging; (1) high acidity levels in the body, technically called acidosis, (2) damaging run away free radical activity and (3) body dehydration.

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  • - with severe derangement of the blood alkaline-acid balance to the acid side (a condition called acidosis);

    Chapter 6 1985

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