word
ketosis
kee-TOH-sis
kɪˈtoʊsɪsListen
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ketosis
Dictionary meaning
a metabolic state in which the body, deprived of sufficient dietary carbohydrates, breaks down fat into ketone bodies which serve as an alternative fuel for the brain and other tissues; induced deliberately by the ketogenic diet and used therapeutically for epilepsy management and experimentally for metabolic conditions
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