oxygen saturation
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Etymology
From oxygen + saturation.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
oxygen saturation (uncountable)
- (chemistry) The 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.
- (medicine) The 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, editor, 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):
Translations
condition of being saturated with oxygen
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proportion of oxygen-saturated hemoglobin in the blood
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