Acidosis
Abnormal acid accumulation or depletion of base. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24381489 ]
Term info
Acidosis
When describing acid-base abnormalities, acidosis and alkalosis refer to physiological processes that lower or raise the pH, respectively, while acidemia and alkalemia simply describe the state of an abnormal blood pH. This distinction is important: a patient with acidemia could have both a respiratory and metabolic acidosis as well as a concurrent metabolic alkalosis.
HP:0001940
human_phenotype
HP:0001941
Term relations
- has_part some (
increased amount and
inheres in some (
acid and
part of some bodily fluid) and
has modifier some abnormal)