TOPICS: Volatile acid, nonvolatile acid, buffers, buffer system, Henderson-Hasselbalch equation, partial pressure of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the arterial blood (PCO2), extracellular buffers, intracellular buffers, urinary buffers, ammonia (NH3+), glutamine, acidosis, hydrogen phosphate (HPO42-), bicarbonate (HCO3-), acute, chronic, glomerulus, acidemia, pH, alkalemia, Winters formula, MUDPILES, HARDASS, urine chloride, saline responsive metabolic alkalosis, saline unresponsive metabolic alkalosis, respiratory acidosis, hypoventilation, carbonic anhydrase, renal compensation, sodium/hydrogen (Na+/H+) pump, proximal convoluted tubule (PCT), respiratory alkalosis, hyperventilation, metabolic acidosis, respiratory compensation, anion gap (AG), elevated anion gap metabolic acidosis, non-anion gap metabolic acidosis, mixed acid-base disorder, metabolic alkalosis, loop diuretics, antacids, vomiting, hyperaldosteronism, Davenport diagram
