Definition of "hypokalemic" []

• Having a low percentage of potassium in one's blood. (adjective)

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• "As the residents hashed out the case, Dr. Jeremy Schwartz, one of the chief residents, thought of hypokalemic from the Latin, meaning low potassium periodic paralysis, a genetic disease that causes a transient paralysis similar to what the patient had."
• "He tells me that he once saw a documentary about a boy with a genetic condition called hypokalemic periodic paralysis and used Google to find a connection with that illness and hyperthyroidism."
• "Cardiovascular side effects have included fluid retention, sodium retention, congestive heart failure, potassium loss, hypokalemic alkalosis the most common metabolic abnormality resulting from vomiting and fluid loss."