See Also: Respiratory acidosis(medicine)
compensated respiratory acidosis(medicine)
National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine(health)
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Acidosis(health)
Acidosis(medicine)
acidosis(dictionary)
Lactic Acidosis(health)
starvation acidosis(medicine)
uncompensated acidosis(medicine)

pleural villi (medicine) and Respiratory acidosis (medicine)


pleural villi (medicine)


pleural villi
Shaggy appendages on the pleura in the neighborhood of the costomediastinal sinus.

Synonym: villi pleurales.


Respiratory acidosis (medicine)


respiratory acidosis
<biochemistry> 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.