oxygen saturation
English
Etymology
oxygen + saturation
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
oxygen saturation (uncountable)
- (chemistry) Condition of being saturated with oxygen.
- 1873 William Wesley Eckenfelder, Water Quality Engineering for Practicing Engineers page 135
- Oxygen saturation in water is related to temperature.
- 1873 William Wesley Eckenfelder, Water Quality Engineering for Practicing Engineers page 135
- (medicine) Proportion of oxygen-saturated hemoglobin in the blood.
- 1967 M.E. Sluijter, "The treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning by administration of oxygen at high atmospheric pressure" in Gerard Meurant (ed.) Carbon Monoxide Poisoning page 126
- As a result of all these mechanisms the arterial oxygen content, the oxygen saturation, the oxygen tension and the pCO2 in arterial and jugular venous blood would be (Lambertsen):
- 1967 M.E. Sluijter, "The treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning by administration of oxygen at high atmospheric pressure" in Gerard Meurant (ed.) Carbon Monoxide Poisoning page 126
Translations
condition of being saturated with oxygen
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proportion of oxygen-saturated hemoglobin in the blood
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