oxygen saturation en · NOUN
Etymology
From oxygen + saturation.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The condition of being saturated with oxygen.
Oxygen saturation in water is related to temperature.
1873, William Wesley Eckenfelder, Water Quality Engineering for Practicing Engineers, page 135:
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(uncountable) The proportion of oxygen-saturated hemoglobin in the blood.
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, editor, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, page 126:
Relateds
SpO2/FiO2 ratio · peripheral oxygen saturation
Translations (9)
cmn 氧饱和度 (proportion of oxygen-saturated hemoglobin in the blood) · cmn 氧飽和度 /氧饱和度 (proportion of oxygen-saturated hemoglobin in the blood) · fi happisaturaatio (condition of being saturated with oxygen) · cmn 氧飽和 /氧饱和 (condition of being saturated with oxygen) · cmn 氧饱和 (condition of being saturated with oxygen) · fi happisaturaatio (proportion of oxygen-saturated hemoglobin in the blood) · fr saturation en oxygène (proportion of oxygen-saturated hemoglobin in the blood) · fi happikyllästeisyys (proportion of oxygen-saturated hemoglobin in the blood) · fi happikyllästeisyys (condition of being saturated with oxygen)