oxygen saturation

English

Etymology

oxygen + saturation

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

oxygen saturation (uncountable)

  1. (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.
  2. (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):

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