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acid-base balance

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-000154

In medicine, the state of having the right amount of acid and base in the blood and other body fluids. Keeping a normal acid-base balance is important for the body to work the way it should. Also called acid-base equilibrium.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-000154
FieldOncology and biomedicine
Synonymsacid-base equilibrium
ReferencesNCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-000154",
  "term": "acid-base balance",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "In medicine, the state of having the right amount of acid and base in the blood and other body fluids. Keeping a normal acid-base balance is important for the body to work the way it should. Also called acid-base equilibrium.",
  "synonyms": [
    "acid-base equilibrium"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/acid-base-balance/"
}

Record 249 of 17,721 in Oncology and biomedicine terminology (MLC-0111). Request the full dataset.