meq
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- noun
- /ɛm iː kjuː/
- Specialized
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meq
- Ratios of Ca to Mg (meq/1) are also useful indicators for studies of freshwater-seawater mixing (Back, Baedecker, and Wood 1993).
- meq/day
Examples
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A Meq = Millequivalents per liter = equivalents per million.
Academic text (2000) -
If the random urine specimen reveals a urinary sodium greater than urinary potassium, this roughly equates to a daily urinary sodium loss of >78 meq/day.
Academic text (2007) -
Why would our bodies be able to easily excrete hundreds of mEq of acids from exercise but accumulate far less acid derived from food?
Blog text (7) -
Blood investigations revealed marked hyponatraemia (serum sodium < 120 meq/litre).
Academic text (2007) -
The most acid-generating food is hard cheese (PMID 7797810), which generates about 30 mEq of acid for every 100g (about 4 ounces) eaten.
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Calculated by the formula: DCAD, mEq/kg DM = (%Na/0.0023 + %K/0.0039) - (%Cl/0.00355 + %S/0.0016).
Academic text (2018) -
Running generates a huge amount of metabolic acid, as much as 320 mEq of lactic acid every hour (note this is in addition to the acidic CO2 eliminated through respiration).
Blog text (7) -
The patient requires 50 meq of potassium for their treatment.
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In a clinical setting, doses of medications are often measured in meq to ensure accuracy.
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For accurate measurements, the laboratory uses meq to express the concentration of electrolytes.
Synonyms
A small unit that measures how much chemical is present, equal to one thousandth of a combining unit
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word meq is short for milliequivalent, made of milli- ('one-thousandth') and equivalent ('equal' or 'acting the same'), and milli- shows small size just like in millimeter. So, meq is used to measure very small chemical amounts that act the same in the body, which is why lab results show values in meq/L.