Acidosis

Definition: Acidosis

Acidosis

Noun

1. Abnormally high acidity (excess hydrogen-ion concentration) of the blood and other body tissues.

Specialty Definitions: Acidosis

Domain	Definitions
Health	A pathologic condition resulting from accumulation of acid or depletion of the alkaline reserve (bicarbonate content) in the blood and body tissues, and characterized by an increase in hydrogen ion concentration. (references)
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Crosswords: Acidosis

English words defined with "acidosis": acidotic ♦ carbon dioxide acidosis ♦ diabetic acidosis ♦ ketoacidosis ♦ metabolic acidosis ♦ respiratory acidosis, respiratory alkalosis ♦ starvation acidosis. (references)

Specialty definitions using "acidosis": Acidosis, Lactic, Acidosis, Renal Tubular, Acidosis, Respiratory, Amino Acid Metabolism, Inborn Errors ♦ citric acid/potassium-sodium citrates ♦ Diabetic Ketoacidosis ♦ Fructose-1,6-Diphosphatase Deficiency ♦ Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar Nonketotic Coma ♦ lactic acidosis ♦ Persistent Fetal Circulation Syndrome, Pyruvate Carboxylase ♦ renal tubular acidosis ♦ Tumor Lysis Syndrome. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Acidosis" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Spanish (acidosis).

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Commercial Usage: Acidosis

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Renal Tubular Acidosis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Clinical and biochemical aspects of lactic acidosis (reference) Hypoxia, Metabolic Acidosis, and the Circulation (Clinical Physiology Series) (reference) Lactic Acidosis and Energy Metabolism: Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease 19-4, 1996 (reference) Metabolic Acidosis (Ciba Foundation Symposium, No 87) (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Acidosis

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Treatment of acidosis may also improve protein metabolism. (references)
		Lactic acidosis may lead to impairment of respiratory and kidney function. (references)
		But too much acid in the blood (acidosis) can disturb many bodily functions. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Acidosis

"Acidosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Acidosis" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	29	64,444

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Expression: Acidosis

Expressions using "acidosis": carbon dioxide acidosis ♦ diabetic acidosis ♦ lactic acidosis ♦ metabolic acidosis ♦ renal tubular acidosis ♦ respiratory acidosis ♦ starvation acidosis. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "acidosis": keto-acidosis.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Acidosis

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
acidosis	163
lactic acidosis	158
metabolic acidosis	61
renal tubular acidosis	59
respiratory acidosis	17
acidosis seasilver	15
acidosis respiratoria	13
acidosis lactic symptom	10
acidosis metabolica	8
diabetic acidosis	7
acidosis symptom	6
acidosis lactic metformin	5
acidosis metabolic neonates treatment	4
acidosis cause lactic	4
acidosis avandamet lactic	3
acidosis keto	3
acidosis en pediatria respiratoria	3
acidosis glucophage lactic	3
acidosis pediatric renal tubular	3
acidosis alkalosis	3
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Modern Translations: Acidosis

Language		Translations for "acidosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		acidose (high blood acidity, ketoacidosis). (various references)

Dutch		acidose. (various references)

Finnish		aineenvaihdunnallinen asidoosi (metabolic acidosis), munuaisperäinen asidoosi (renal tubular acidosis), metabolinen asidoosi (metabolic acidosis), maitohappoasidoosi (lactic acidosis). (various references)

French		acidose (f), acidose. (various references)

German		Azidose. (various references)

Greek		αλκαλική ύφεσισ αίματοσ, οξέωσις, οξαιμία. (various references)

Italian		acidosi. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		アクリル繊維 (accommodator, accord, accordion, accordion door, accordion pleats, achromatic lens, acid, acoustic, acoustic guitar, acoustic sound, acrobat, acrobatic, acrobatic dance, acrobatic dancer, acropolis, acrylic fiber, acrylonitrile, against, against wind, agglomeration, aggressive, agitation, agoraphobia, agreement, agribusiness, agriculture, Asia, Asia dollar, aside, assassin, assault, assert, assertiveness training, assign, assignment, assist, assistance, assistant, assistant director, assistant manager, assistant purser, asymmetric design, asymmetry, contortionist, to instigate, to stir up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		アシドーシス . (various references)

Pig Latin		acidosisay

Portuguese		acidose. (various references)

Russian		ацидоз. (various references)

Spanish		acidosis. (various references)

Ukranian		ацідоз. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Acidosis

Misspellings
	"Acidosis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acedosis, Acidaspis, acidiosis, Aridolis, Iacorossi. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Acidosis"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "acidosis" (pronounced a'sudō"sus)
4	-ō" s u s	apotheosis, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, cirrhosis, diagnosis, fibrosis, heterosis, hypnosis, meiosis, misdiagnosis, necrosis, nephrosis, neurofibromatosis, neurosis, prognosis, psychosis, sclerosis, symbiosis, thrombosis, tuberculosis.
3	-s u s	amniocentesis, analysis, antithesis, archdiocese, axis, catharsis, census, colossus, consensus, crisis, dialysis, diocese, electrolysis, Genesis, geotaxis, glacis, homeostasis, hydrolysis, hypothesis, metamorphosis, morphogenesis, Narcissus, nemesis, nexus, organogenesis, photosynthesis, phototaxis, plexus, preadolescence, proboscis, prosthesis, psoriasis, psychoanalysis, psychokinesis, rhesus, synopsis, synthesis, Tarsus, telexes, Texas, thesis, urinalysis, versus.
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Anagrams: Acidosis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-i-o-s-s"
	-1 letter: cissoid.
	-2 letters: asdics, discos.
	-3 letters: acids, adios, asdic, cadis, caids, codas, disci, disco, discs, iodic, oasis, oidia, ossia, sadis, saids, scads, sodas, sodic.
	-4 letters: acid, ados, aids, asci, cadi, cads, caid, ciao, coda, cods, coss, dais, disc, diss, docs, doss, ocas, odic, ossa, sacs, sadi, said, scad, sics, soda, sods.
	-5 letters: ado, ads, aid, ais, ass, cad, cis, cod, cos, dis, doc, dos, ids, oca, ods, sac, sad, sic, sis, sod, sos.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-i-o-s-s"
	+1 letter: dissocial.
	+2 letters: dissociate, socialised.
	+3 letters: diagnostics, dissociable, dissociated, dissociates, eicosanoids, sarcoidosis, sardonicism.
	+4 letters: adscititious, aphrodisiacs, caudillismos, cuspidations, desiccations, dipsomaniacs, disassociate, dislocations, dissociating, dissociation, dissociative, distractions, epidiascopes, idiosyncrasy, sardonicisms, solidaristic, syndications.
	+5 letters: accordionists, antispasmodic, cardiologists, custodianship, dichromatisms, dictatorships, disaffections, disassociated, disassociates, disclamations, discographies, discordancies, dissociations, educationists, idiomaticness, indissociable, indissociably, miseducations, myocarditises, nonclassified, proboscidians, radiochemists, sophisticated, undissociated.
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