acidemia

1. 1.

   a blood disorder characterized by an increased concentration of hydrogen ions in the blood (which falls below 7 on the pH scale)

   Broaderblood disease

Other forms of acidemia

plural

acidemias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about acidemia

What does acidemia mean?

acidemia means "a blood disorder characterized by an increased concentration of hydrogen ions in the blood (which falls below 7 on the pH scale)".

How many syllables are in acidemia?

acidemia has 5 syllables: a-ci-de-mi-a. The stress falls on "de".

Is acidemia a common word?

acidemia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.