n. 1  1. Abnormally high alkalinity of the blood and body tissues caused by an excess of bicarbonates, as from an increase in alkali intake, or by or a deficiency of acids other than carbonic acid, as from vomiting. Also called metabolic alkalosis.
In the period before the exclusion, there were 82 closures of family-planning clinics in Texas,5 and the decrease in the number of family-planning clinics was greater in counties without Planned Parenthood affiliates than in those with such affiliates.
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, which served 26,000 patients at 12 Iowa clinics last year, says other clinics lack its longstanding expertise in reproductive and sexual health care, and that the proposed change would increase abortions by causing unplanned pregnancies.