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ketotic
[kētot′ik]
Etymology: Fr, acetone
1 pertaining to the presence of ketone in the body.
2 denoting the presence of a carbonyl group in a chemical compound.


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The diet emerged in the 1920s, when it was discovered that a person who is fasting becomes ketotic, she explained.
What they do is slip into a rather ketotic state and actually decrease their caloric intake for a while, and they feel nauseated.
However, the patient became ketotic within a few days of commencing the formula, so the unmodified formula was continued.
 
 
 
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