Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun starvation_acidosis

1 sense of starvation acidosis

Sense 1
starvation acidosis -- (acidosis in which the acidity results from lack of food which leads to fat catabolism which in turn releases acidic ketone bodies)
       => acidosis -- (abnormally high acidity (excess hydrogen-ion concentration) of the blood and other body tissues)