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Definition of Respiratory acidosis

1. Noun. 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.

Medical Definition of Respiratory acidosis

1. A metabolic derangement of acid-base balance where the blood pH is abnormally low. Causes include haemorrhagic shock, cardiogenic shock, severe dehydration, sepsis, toxic ingestion (for example isopropyl alcohol, methanol), alcoholic ketoacidosis, lactic acidosis, renal failure and diabetic ketoacidosis. Respiratory acidosis will occur if the lungs are not ventilating properly resulting in an excess of carbon dioxide in the body. (25 Jun 1999)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Respiratory Acidosis

Literary usage of Respiratory acidosis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Operative Gynecologic Laparoscopy: Principles and Techniques by Camran Nezhat (2000)
"CO2 pneumoperitoneum, however, can result in physiologically significant hypercarbia and respiratory acidosis. The risk of hypercarbia and acidosis is ..."

2. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"A normal plasma pH, together with a raised plasma CO 2 and hence a raised plasma bicarbonate concentration, indicated a compensated respiratory acidosis, ..."

3. Acute Perinatal Asphyxia in Term Infants: Report of the Workshopedited by Linda L. Wright, Gerald B. Merenstein, Deborah Hirtz edited by Linda L. Wright, Gerald B. Merenstein, Deborah Hirtz (1997)
"This continuum begins as a physiologic asphyxia when we consider the mild mixed metabolic and respiratory acidosis in umbilical cord blood specimens at the ..."

4. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"... reports in which blood calcium was increased in adult rats with metabolic and respiratory acidosis (24), in human infants born in a cyanotic state (25), ..."

5. Cocaine Use in America: Epidemmiologic and Clinical Perspectives edited by Nicholas J. Kozel, Edgar H. Adams (1996)
"This may be due to obstruction of the airway, severe lactic and respiratory acidosis, a serious failure of the heart rhythm, or inacti- vation of the ..."

6. Mammalian Models for Research on Aging by Institute Of Laboratory Animal Resources, Bennett J. Cohen, National Research Council Staff (1981)
"... bed result in an imbalanced ventilation-perfusion relationship that may result in hypoxemia, carbon dioxide retention, and respiratory acidosis. ..."

7. Alcohols Effect on Organ Function edited by Dianne M. Welsh (1997)
"respiratory acidosis is rare but carries an ominous prognosis when it occurs. administration of paraldehyde, a sedative used for alcohol withdrawal. ..."

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