kalemia
English
Alternative forms
- kalaemia
Etymology
kal(ium) + -emia.
Noun
kalemia (uncountable)
- (physiology, especially in combination) The presence of potassium in the blood, and (usually, especially) the degree (that is, its concentration).
- 1955 February 1, 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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Coordinate terms
- calcemia, cupremia, magnesemia, natremia (types of biometallic cation concentration in blood)
- glycemia (blood sugar concentration)
Derived terms
- eukalemia (eukalemic), that is, normokalemia (normokalemic)
- dyskalemia (dyskalemic): either hyperkalemia (hyperkalemic) or hypokalemia (hypokalemic)
- kalemic
Translations
presence of potassium in the blood
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