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STARVATION ACIDOSIS
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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
Classified under:
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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