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ketonaemia

ketonaemia is the alternative spelling of ketonemia.

Meaning of ketonemia

Noun

ketonemia (countable and uncountable, plural ketonemias)

  1. An excess of ketones in the blood, sometimes associated with lipolysis.
    • If symptoms are directly proportional to the degree of hypoglycemia, ketonemias or a combination of the two, this animal would logically be expected to show pronounced symptoms.1947, Donald Edward Jasper, Hepatic Changes in the Bovine During Pregnancy and Ketosis

Origin of ketonaemia

From ketone + -aemia.

Questions about ketonaemia

What is ketonaemia the alternative spelling of?
Ketonaemia is the alternative spelling of ketonemia.

Words near ketonaemia in the dictionary

  1. ketomycolate
  2. ketomycolates
  3. ketomycolic
  4. ketomycolic acid
  5. ketomycolic acids
  6. ketonaemia
  7. ketonaemic
  8. ketone
  9. ketone bodies
  10. ketone body
  11. ketonemia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ketonaemia (page history and authors); ketonemia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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