hypokalemia
noun
hypokalemia is a noun meaning “The condition of having an abnormally low concentration of potassium ions in the blood (below the reference range)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-O-K-A-L-E-M-I-A, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hypokalemia is hypokalemias.
What does hypokalemia mean?
noun
- 1
The condition of having an abnormally low concentration of potassium ions in the blood (below the reference range).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hypokalemia
- hypokalemias plural
- hypokalaemia
- hypokalæmia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hypokalemia?
Hypokalemia appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Hypokalemia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hypokaliémie |
| German | Hypokaliämie |
| Spanish | hipopotasemia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does hypokalemia come from?
From hypo- + kalemia or hypo- + kal(ium) + -emia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).