Associations to the word «Hypokalemia»

Wiktionary

HYPOKALEMIA, noun. (medicine) The condition of having an abnormally low concentration of potassium ions in the blood.

Dictionary definition

HYPOKALEMIA, noun. Abnormally low level of potassium in the circulating blood leading to weakness and heart abnormalities; associated with adrenal tumors or starvation or taking diuretics.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats