kalemia

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kal(ium) +‎ -emia.

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kalemia (uncountable)

  1. (physiology, especially in combination) The presence of potassium in the blood, and (usually, especially) the degree (that is, its concentration).
    • 1955 February, Lloyd H. Smith, Jr., “Post-traumatic Renal Insufficiency in Military Casualties”, in The American Journal of Medicine, volume 18, number 2, II. Management, Use of an Artificial Kidney, Prognosis, page 187:
      Patients with renal insufficiency following trauma present special problems in management because clinical uremia, high levels of azotemia and kalemia, and myocardial potassium intoxication develop rapidly.
    • 1982, Veterinary and Human Toxicology, page 67:
      One of the criteria of efficiency is the reversal of these potassium movements, with decrease of kalemia and increase of the intra-cellular cation, expressing a recovery of ATPase activity.
    • 2012, C. Ronco, Critical Care Nephrology‎:
      Various factors influence the effects of hyper and hypokalemia on the heart: the rate of the change in kalemia levels, the plasmatic concentration of remaining ions which contribute to the cell Em, and the simultaneous use of drugs.

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