RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does respiratory acidosis mean? 

• RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS (noun)
  The noun RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS has 1 sense:

1. acidosis resulting from reduced gas exchange in the lungs (as in emphysema or pneumonia); excess carbon dioxide combines with water to form carbonic acid which increases the acidity of the blood

  Familiarity information: RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS (noun)

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Meaning:

Acidosis resulting from reduced gas exchange in the lungs (as in emphysema or pneumonia); excess carbon dioxide combines with water to form carbonic acid which increases the acidity of the blood

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

carbon dioxide acidosis; respiratory acidosis

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

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