hypoxemia
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English
Alternative forms
- hypoxaemia (British, Commonwealth, but not Canadian)
Etymology
By surface analysis, hyp- + ox- + -emia.
Noun
hypoxemia (countable and uncountable, plural hypoxemias)
- (medicine) An abnormal deficiency in the concentration of oxygen in the blood, be it the partial pressure of oxygen (mm Hg), the content of oxygen (ml oxygen per dl of blood) or the per cent saturation of the blood's hemoglobin, singly or in combination.
- Coordinate terms: anoxemia, hyperoxemia, normoxemia
- 1984, Alan Morris, Richard Kanner, Robert Crapo, Reed Gardner, Clinical Pulmonary Function Testing. A manual of uniform laboratory procedures, 2nd edition:
- The most profound abnormality determines the oxygen deficiency category ... of hypoxemia.
Related terms
Translations
abnormal deficiency in the concentration of oxygen in the blood
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