kalemia

English

Alternative forms

• kalaemia

Etymology

kal(ium) +‎ -emia.

Noun

kalemia (uncountable)

1. (physiology, especially in combination) The presence of potassium in the blood, and (usually, especially) the degree (that is, its concentration).
   • 1955 February, Lloyd H. Smith, Jr., “Post-traumatic Renal Insufficiency in Military Casualties”, in The American Journal of Medicine, volume 18, number 2, II. Management, Use of an Artificial Kidney, Prognosis, page 187:

     Patients with renal insufficiency following trauma present special problems in management because clinical uremia, high levels of azotemia and kalemia, and myocardial potassium intoxication develop rapidly.

   • 1982, Veterinary and Human Toxicology, page 67:

     One of the criteria of efficiency is the reversal of these potassium movements, with decrease of kalemia and increase of the intra-cellular cation, expressing a recovery of ATPase activity.

   • 2012, C. Ronco, Critical Care Nephrology‎^[1]:

     Various factors influence the effects of hyper and hypokalemia on the heart: the rate of the change in kalemia levels, the plasmatic concentration of remaining ions which contribute to the cell Em, and the simultaneous use of drugs.

Coordinate terms

• calcemia, cupremia, magnesemia, natremia (types of biometallic cation concentration in blood)
• glycemia (blood sugar concentration)

Derived terms

• eukalemia (eukalemic), that is, normokalemia (normokalemic)
• dyskalemia (dyskalemic): either hyperkalemia (hyperkalemic) or hypokalemia (hypokalemic)
• kalemic

Translations

presence of potassium in the blood

• Italian: kaliemia f
• Spanish: potasemia f