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ac·i·de·mi·a

 (ăs′ĭ-dē′mē-ə)
n.
Abnormal acidity of the blood.
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acidemia

(ˌæsɪˈdiːmɪə)
n
a state of abnormally high acidity of the blood due to an increase in hydrogen ions
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Noun1.acidemia - a blood disorder characterized by an increased concentration of hydrogen ions in the blood (which falls below 7 on the pH scale)acidemia - a blood disorder characterized by an increased concentration of hydrogen ions in the blood (which falls below 7 on the pH scale)
blood disease, blood disorder - a disease or disorder of the blood
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ac·i·de·mi·a

n. acidemia, exceso de ácido en la sangre.
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Patients exposed to trauma are usually in a state of acidaemia and hypoproteinemia.
This condition is now called lactic acidaemia, meaning lactic acid in the blood.
L-2-Hydroxyglutaric acidaemia: clinical and biochemical findings in 12 patients and preliminary report on L-2-hydroxyacid dehydrogenase.
Our purpose was to employ a case-control design to identify possible risk factors during pregnancy and delivery for fetal acidaemia at birth that could help obstetricians recognise patients who have a higher risk of developing fetal and subsequent neonatal acidaemia.
Opercular abnormalities may be caused by genetic factors, as usually seen in Miller-Dieker syndrome,[sup][23] glutaric aciduria type 1,[sup][24],[25] methylmalonic acidaemia,[sup][26] and nonsyndromic microencephaly.[sup][27] However, abnormal operculization on prenatal imaging does not systematically reflect the underlying cortical dysplasia.
It has previously been shown that if the warm-up intensity is too high, the subsequent metabolic acidaemia is associated with impaired supramaximal performance and a reduction in the accumulated oxygen deficit (Bishop et al.
Cooper, "A syndrome of lipoatrophy, lactic acidaemia and liver dysfunction associated with HIV nucleoside analogue therapy: contribution to protease inhibitor-related lipodystrophy syndrome," AIDS, vol.
[8] showed increasing MCA mean velocity with worsening fetal hypoxaemia and acidaemia in 81 FGR fetuses, possibly related to decreasing cerebral and increasing placental vascular resistance with redistribution of cardiac output (in favour of the left ventricle).
g) Acidaemia (arterial pH < 7.25) or Acidosis (plasma bicarbonate <15 mmol/1).