alcalosis

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [əl.kəˈlo̞.zis]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [əl.kəˈlɔ.zis]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [al.kaˈlɔ.zis]
• Rhymes: -ɔzis
• Hyphenation: al‧ca‧lo‧sis

Noun

alcalosis f pl

1. plural of alcalosi

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic الْقِلْي (al-qily)

Andalusian Arabicbor.

Spanish álcali

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Hellenic *-tis

Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs)

Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)

Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis)bor.

Latin -ōsisder.

Spanish -osis

Spanish alcalosis

From álcali + -osis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alkaˈlosis/ [al.kaˈlo.sis]
• Rhymes: -osis
• Syllabification: al‧ca‧lo‧sis

Noun

alcalosis f (plural alcalosis)

1. (medicine) alkalosis

   Antonym: acidosis

Further reading

• “alcalosis”, 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