respiratory acidosis

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Acidosis that is caused by retention of carbon dioxide, due to inadequate pulmonary ventilation or hypoventilation, and that results in a decrease in blood pH unless compensated for by renal retention of bicarbonate.

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Within six days, however, the infant was admitted to a pediatric hospital with diarrhea, bluish skin, and respiratory failure.
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An average of 200,000 will be sent to the hospital for respiratory and heart conditions illnesses associated with it.
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Adam Lausing, an infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan, emphasized that Ebola is not a respiratory disease.
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This one, too, will go the way of all respiratory infections and sooner probably than later.
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The hospital found hypothermia, respiratory problems and assumed a head injury.
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An increase is also noted in the uric-acid diathesis and in diseases accompanied by respiratory insufficiency.
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It is often present in the respiratory tract under normal conditions.
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When the respiratory elements and fibre have not been separated, the sum of the two is given.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry|Thomas Anderson
Owen says that the thymus appears in vertebrates with the establishment of the lung as the main or exclusive respiratory organ.
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Until one stops to think of it, he does not realize the extent of the respiratory muscles.
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