STARVATION ACIDOSIS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Acidosis in which the acidity results from lack of food which leads to fat catabolism which in turn releases acidic ketone bodies

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("starvation acidosis" is a kind of...):

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

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