RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does respiratory alkalosis mean? 

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

1. alkalosis resulting from increased gas exchange in the lungs (as in hyperventilation associated with extreme anxiety or aspirin intoxication or metabolic acidosis)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Alkalosis resulting from increased gas exchange in the lungs (as in hyperventilation associated with extreme anxiety or aspirin intoxication or metabolic acidosis)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

alkalosis (abnormally high alkalinity (low hydrogen-ion concentration) of the blood and other body tissues)