Causes and symptoms. The primary cause of respiratory alkalosis is hyperventilation. This rapid, deep breathing can be caused by conditions related to the lungs like pneumonia, lung disease, or asthma. More commonly, hyperventilation is associated with anxiety, fever, drug overdose, carbon monoxide poisoning, or serious infections.
Mayas. 1  1a : a Mayan language of the ancient Maya peoples recorded in inscriptionsb : yucatec; especially : the older form of that language known from documents of the Spanish period. 2  2 : a member of a group of Indian peoples chiefly of YucatÃ¡n, Belize, and Guatemala whose languages are Mayan.
Historical Examples. 1  The guards goes first to git the truck ready to take us bak to the pen! 2  Other meanings of bak in Maya are âmeatâ and the partes pudendas of either sex. 3  He lays in sleep on sidewalks by bak'ry stores where heat and smell comes; comes somebody, und he runs.