Acidosis

Look up Acidosis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Acidosis is an increased acidity (i.e. hydrogen ion concentration) of blood plasma. Generally acidosis is said to occur when arterial pH falls below 7.35, while its counterpart (alkalosis) occurs at a pH over 7.45. Arterial blood gas analysis and other tests are required to separate the main causes. Strictly speaking, the term acidemia would be more appropriate to describe the state of low blood pH, reserving acidosis to describe the ...