ketoacidemia

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  The presence of ketoacids in the blood, as:
 * 2)  The presence of excessive ketoacids in the blood.
 * 3)  A hereditary disease that is due to deficiency of an enzyme involved in amino acid metabolism.
 * 1)  A hereditary disease that is due to deficiency of an enzyme involved in amino acid metabolism.
 * 1)  A hereditary disease that is due to deficiency of an enzyme involved in amino acid metabolism.

Usage notes

 * Speaking precisely, ketoacidemia and are findings in , which has various forms (from various causes), chiefly , , limited food intake (in intentional or unintentional forms), and  (branched-chain ketoaciduria). In loose usage, mentions of ketoacidemia without further specification sometimes are meant to refer to maple syrup urine disease.
 * Pairs of terms such as ketoacidemia and, as well as and , are examples of a theme in medical terminology whereby the prefixed counterpart is sometimes synonymous with its root, which in precise usage is hypernymic but in common usage can mean either the usual amount of something or the excessive amount, especially when the usual amount is so near zero that it is usually  as being zero. Thus, for example, the terms  and  are usually synonymous in real-world usage because the amount of protein in the urine under healthy conditions is so small that it is conceptualized as zero, despite being nonzero from a molecular perspective.