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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
The prefix ''hypo-'' means low (contrast with ''hyper-'', meaning high). The middle ''kal'' refers to ''kalium'', which is Neo-Latin for potassium. The end portion of the word, ''-emia'', means "in the blood" (note, however, that hypokalemia is usually indicative of a ''systemic'' potassium deficit). | The prefix ''hypo-'' means low (contrast with ''hyper-'', meaning high). The middle ''kal'' refers to ''kalium'', which is Neo-Latin for potassium. The end portion of the word, ''-emia'', means "in the blood" (note, however, that hypokalemia is usually indicative of a ''systemic'' potassium deficit). | ||
==Historical Perspective== | |||
*Potassium was discovered in 1807 by Sir Humphry Davy in 1807 in England<ref name="pmid16993045">{{cite journal| author=Barcroft J, Straub H| title=The secretion of urine. | journal=J Physiol | year= 1910 | volume= 41 | issue= 3-4 | pages= 145-67 | pmid=16993045 | doi= | pmc=1512768 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=16993045 }}</ref>. | |||
*He discovered potassium by means of electrolysis from potash. | |||
*It was the first alkali metal to be discovered. | |||
*The prefix ''hypo-'' means low (contrast with ''hyper-'', meaning high). The middle ''kal'' refers to ''kalium'', which is Neo-Latin for potassium. The end portion of the word, ''-emia'', means "in the blood" (note, however, that hypokalemia is usually indicative of a ''systemic'' potassium deficit). | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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Overview
The prefix hypo- means low (contrast with hyper-, meaning high). The middle kal refers to kalium, which is Neo-Latin for potassium. The end portion of the word, -emia, means "in the blood" (note, however, that hypokalemia is usually indicative of a systemic potassium deficit).
Historical Perspective
- Potassium was discovered in 1807 by Sir Humphry Davy in 1807 in England[1].
- He discovered potassium by means of electrolysis from potash.
- It was the first alkali metal to be discovered.
- The prefix hypo- means low (contrast with hyper-, meaning high). The middle kal refers to kalium, which is Neo-Latin for potassium. The end portion of the word, -emia, means "in the blood" (note, however, that hypokalemia is usually indicative of a systemic potassium deficit).