acarbia
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acarbia
[ah-kahr´be-ah]decrease of bicarbonate in the blood.
acarbia
/acar·bia/ (ah-kahr´be-ah) decrease of bicarbonate in the blood.acarbia
[akär′bē·ə]
Etymology: Gk, a, not; L, carbo, coal
a decrease in the bicarbonate level in the blood.
hypocapnia
Decreased CO2 or bicarbonate in blood. Hypocapnia, even when marked, is normally well tolerated; transient induction of hypocapnia can lead to life-saving physiologic changes in patients with severe intracranial hypertension or neonatal pulmonary-artery hypertension, but hypocapnia of longer duration in critically ill patients adversely affects outcomes. Prophylactic induction of hypocapnia has no clinical role.acarbia (akär´bēə),
n a condition in which the blood bicarbonate level is decreased.
acarbia
decrease of bicarbonate in the blood.