acidosis

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.

Latin aceō

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *-iðos

Latin -idus

Latin acidusbor.

French acidebor.

English acid

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)

Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)

Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis)bor.

New Latin -ōsislbor.

English -osis

English acidosis

From acid + -osis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌæs.ɪˈdəʊ.sɪs/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌæs.ɪˈdoʊ.sɪs/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌæs.ɪˈdəʉ.sɪs/
• Rhymes: -əʊsɪs

Noun

acidosis (countable and uncountable, plural acidoses)

2. (pathology) An abnormally increased acidity of the blood.

Antonyms

• alkalosis

Derived terms

• high anion gap metabolic acidosis
• ketoacidosis
• lactacidosis
• lactic acidosis

Related terms

• acidotic

Translations

abnormally increased acidity of the blood

• Arabic: حُمَّاض m (ḥummāḍ)
• Armenian: ացիդոզ (hy) (acʻidoz)
• Basque: azidosi
• Belarusian: ацыдоз m (acydóz)
• Bulgarian: ацидоза f (acidoza)
• Catalan: acidosi (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 酸中毒 (syun¹ zung³ duk⁶)

  Mandarin: 酸中毒 (zh) (suānzhòngdú)

• Czech: acidóza f
• Danish: acidose c
• Dutch: acidose (nl) f
• Esperanto: acidozo
• Estonian: atsidoos
• Finnish: asidoosi (fi), happomyrkytys (fi)
• Franc-Comtois: aichidôje f
• French: acidose (fr)
• Galician: acidose (gl) f
• Georgian: აციდოზი (acidozi)
• German: Azidose (de) f
• Greek: οξέωση (el) f (oxéosi)
• Hindi: अम्लरक्तता f (amlaraktatā)
• Hungarian: acidózis (hu)
• Indonesian: asidosis (id)
• Interlingua: acidosis
• Irish: aigéadóis f
• Italian: acidosi (it)
• Japanese: アシドーシス (ashidōshisu), 酸血症 (sankesshō)
• Kannada: ಪುಳಿಕೆ (kn) (puḷike), ನೆತ್ತರಹುಳಿ (kn) (nettarahuḷi)
• Kazakh: ацидоз (asidoz)
• Korean: 산성증 (sanseongjeung)
• Kyrgyz: ацидоз (atsidoz)
• Latvian: acidoze f
• Lithuanian: acidozė f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Azidoos f

• Malay: asidosis
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: acidose m

  Nynorsk: acidose m

• Occitan: acidòsi f
• Polish: kwasica (pl) f, acydoza (pl) f, acydemia f
• Portuguese: acidose f
• Romanian: acidoză (ro) f
• Russian: ацидо́з (ru) m (acidóz)
• Slovak: acidóza f
• Slovene: acidoza f
• Spanish: acidosis (es) f
• Swedish: acidos c
• Tagalog: asidosis
• Tajik: атсидо́з (atsidóz)
• Telugu: ఆమ్లరక్తత (te) (āmlaraktata)
• Turkish: asidoz
• Ukrainian: ацидо́з m (acydóz)
• Uzbek: atsidoz
• Vietnamese: nhiễm toan (vi)
• Welsh: asidosis m

Anagrams

• isoacids

Spanish

Etymology

From ácido +‎ -osis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aθiˈdosis/ [a.θiˈð̞o.sis] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /asiˈdosis/ [a.siˈð̞o.sis] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -osis
• Syllabification: a‧ci‧do‧sis

Noun

acidosis f (uncountable)

1. (pathology) acidosis (an abnormally increased acidity of the blood)

Related terms

• acidosis láctica
• acidótico

See also

• alcalosis

Further reading

• “acidosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025