HYPOKALEMIA

hypokalemia

(noun) abnormally low level of potassium in the circulating blood leading to weakness and heart abnormalities; associated with adrenal tumors or starvation or taking diuretics

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

hypokalemia (countable and uncountable, plural hypokalemias)

(medicine) The condition of having an abnormally low concentration of potassium ions in the blood.

Source: Wiktionary



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